You'll find Dave Levingston at : his official site, his blog Exposed for the Shadows, Model Mayem, One Model Place.
Dave Levingston is a master from United States. Is there still a fine-art passionate who doesn't know everything about him ?... No, of course.
From California to Maine, in the most outstanding natural landscapes, with a perfect master of light and colors, and always working with wonderful and creative models, Dave Levingston photographies the female body with an amazing talent.
I love his neverendless inspiration, his colors, and his pleasing words that you may read daily in his blog Exposed for the Shadows.
Dave Levingston (here photographied by Dave Rudin) by himself :
" I believe that artists discover, rather than choose, their subject matter. For me, women, and specifically the female figure, are the subjects that have repeatedly drawn my attention throughout my career as a photographer.
I photograph the female figure for many reasons. I believe the female body is the original aesthetic object, the source of all our ideas of what is beautiful. Therefore, the female figure provides the perfect subject matter to explore all the concerns of contemporary art, just as it has been an important subject since the beginning of art.
" I’m interested in light and shadow, the essence of photography. I am interested in the tension between light and dark, both in photos and in people.
Both light and shadow are needed to define the form of the body and the person. Without the shadows that are within all of us, the light is meaningless. In my work I try to examine the dialectic of light and dark ; the necessity of each to the other ; the dance of relationship that counters value judgments and makes us examine the concepts of good and evil.
" I choose to work in color rather than the traditional black and white because color is more challenging. I’m interested in the abstraction of objective reality…finding the truth of abstraction in the things we see (but don’t see) every day. Black and white is too abstract by its nature to be truly useful in this work. And, besides, the world I see is in color."
Art Models Hope Hoffman and Rachel
" I’ve become known for my photos of nude models outdoors. This is one of the photos that originally started creating that reputation.
I’ve been a photographer, and I’ve photographed nudes, for far longer than I like to think about…much longer than many of my current models have been alive. But it was this shoot in Maine when everything from all those years finally came together and at long last my personal style was defined.
Art Model Theda
" For me, the real joy of this shoot was the experience of working with nature.
You can never predict what weather, sun, plants, insects…nature…will present when you go out for a shoot.
The fun is to take what nature gives you and work with it to make the photos that are there to be made.
That’s what I love about working outdoors. It’s a Zen thing to me. I think of it like surfing. You can’t succeed if you fight the waves. But if you understand the waves and connect with the power of them, you can have a blast and go somewhere. "
"Mandy on the rocks"
Art Model Jessica
To purchase his book click on the picture.
"Beautiful women photographed in beautiful locations from California to Maine. Dave Levingston integrates the female figure into the landscape and reveals relationships that go to the core of our ideas of beauty. A delight for the eye and the intellect. "
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