BUILDER LEVY, PHOTOGRAPHER
BUILDER LEVY Resume
ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2/16-3-16 Appalachia USA, Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
7/15-9/15 Appalachia USA, Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL
12/14-2/15 Builder Levy Photographer, Arnall Golden Gregory, Atlanta, GA
10/14-11/15 Builder Levy Photographer, Arnika Dawkins Gallery, Atlanta, GA
4/13-8/13 Platinum, Gold, Silver Photographs, Arnika Dawkins Gallery, Atlanta, GA
6//12-8//12 Developing Nations, Flomenhaft Gallery, Chelsea, New York City
11/08 Appalachia USA, Parkersburg Art Center, Parkersburg, WV
10/08-11/08 Appalachia USA, Doris Ulmann Galleries, Berea College, Berea, KY
4/07-5/07 Builder Levy Selected Work, O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York City
2/07-4/07 Builder Levy: New York City, Guild Gallery, Hudson Guild Elliot Center, Chelsea, NYC
12/06 Builder Levy Photographer Guest Photographer, Soho Photo, New York City
6/06-8/06 Builder Levy: Children, Culpepper Gallery, Abrons Arts Center, Henry Street Settlement, NYC
2/06-4/06 Builder Levy Photographer, Labor Arts, Tamiment Library, and Robert Wagner Labor Archives, New York University Bobst Library, NYC
9/20/04 Appalachian Coalfield Images, Appalachian College Association Ledford Scholarship Endowment Dinner, Harvard Club, NYC
8/7/04 Life of the Appalachian Coal Miner, (Portfolio) 12th Annual Mountain Music Festival, Big Creek People in Action, Caretta, McDowell County, WV
8/02 Life of the Appalachian Coal Miner, (Portfolio) Mountain Eagle, Whitesburg, KY
6/01 Then and Now, Demonstrations in the 1960's and the New Millenium, Art Resources Transfer, Chelsea art district, NYC
1/00-2/00 New York City Photographs as Digitally Blownup C-Prints, Art Resources Transfer, NYC
6/98 Mongolia, Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art, Staten Island, NYC
11/97 Images of Appalachian Coalfields, Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Queens College, CUNY, NYC
4/96 Mongolia, Land of Chinggis Khan, Embassy of Mongolia, Washington, DC
3/96 Images of Appalachian Coalfields, OK Harris Works of Art Gallery, NYC
1/96 Mongolia, Land of Chinggis Khan, Camera Obscura Gallery, Denver, CO
2/95 Two Sides of the World:Appalachia and Mongolia, A Personal Vision, Gallery Taranto, NYC
7/94 Life of the Appalachian Coal Miner, (Portfolio) National Mine, Health and Safety Academy, Beckley, WV (On Permanent display)
Images of Appalachian Coalfields was shown at the following museums and galleries:
11/94 Shepherd College Arts Center, Shepherdstown, WV
1/94 Baldwin Photographic Gallery, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN
8/93 Parkersburg Art Center, Parkersburg, WV.
5/93 COMER Museum, now the Royce J. and Carolyn B. Watts Museum, West Virginia
Univeristy, Morgantown, WV
1/93 Carroll Reece Museum, Johnson City, TN
11/92 Ekstrom Library, Univ. of Louisville, KY
8/92 Kentucky Highlands Museum, Ashland, KY
6/92 Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN
1/92 Marsh Gallery, Modlin Fine Arts Center, University of Richmond, VA
9/91 Loyola College Art Gallery, Baltimore, MD
6/91 Appalachian Museum, Berea College, Berea, KY
3/91-5/91 West Virginia State Museum, Charleston, WV
1/91 Alice Lloyd College Art Gallery, Pippa Passes, KY
11/90 Gallery of Fine Arts, Daytona Beach Community College, Daytona, FL
9/90 University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington, KY
6/90 Johnstown Art Museum, Johnstown, PA
3/90 Appalshop, Whitesburg, KY
1/90 Trisolini Gallery, Ohio University, Athens, OH 11/89 Midtown Y Gallery, NYC 7/89 International Center of Photography, NYC
9/86 Life of the Appalachian Coal Miner, Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
3/83 Twenty Years of Photography, Ledel Gallery, NYC
1/81 Bushwick, Foto Gallery, NYC
11/80 Life of the Appalachian Coal Miner, Guest Photographer, Soho Photo Gallery, NYC
3/78 Life of the Appalachian Coal Miner, West Virginia Institute of Technology, Montgomery,WV
12/77 Life of the Appalachian Coal Miner, Double Exposure Gallery, NYC
4/76 Life of the Appalachian Coal Miner, Milwaukee Center of Photography, Milwaukee, WI
4/76 Life of the Appalachian Coal Miner, Della Brown Talyor Art Gallery, West Virginia State College (now University ), Institute, WV
11/74 Life of the Appalachian Coal Miner, Soho Photo Gallery, NYC (
11/69 Soul of the Appalachian Mountain People, Donnell Library, NYC
6/68 Memphis to Atlanta: A King Memorial, Coleman Intermediate School 271K, Brooklyn, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016 Timescapes, New York at its Core, Museum of the City of New York, 1 photo Dancing Girls
3/15-4/15 The I of the Camera, 12 Appalachia USA photographs, Flomenhaft Gallery, NYC
12/9/14 17th Annual Friends of Friends Photography benefit exhibition/auction for Friends Without A Border, Benefit exhibition/Auction, Metropolitan Pavilion, NYC
10/17/14 Atlanta Celebrates Photography Benefit exhibition/Auction, Mason Murer Fine Arts, Atlanta, GA (including a bidding war over my photo: Pigeon Cloud)
9/14-12/14 The Growth of a Collection, Part I: 1981-2001, Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL
5/14-8/14 Posing Beauty, curated by Deborah Willis, Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, VA
4/14-6/14 Objective-Subjective, LeClerc Contemporay, Norwalk, CT
3/14-7/14 In the Streets, Photographs of Urban Spaces, John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL
1/14-3/14 Posing Beauty, curated by Deborah Willis, Evansville Museum, Evansville, IN
9/13-12/13 Posing Beauty, curated by Deborah Willis, Spellman College, Atlanta, GA
12/13/13 16th Annual Friends of Friends Benefit exhibition/Auction, Friends Without A Border,, at the Metropolitan Pavilion, NYC
6/13-7/13, 9/13 Illuminators, O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York City
4/13 Arnika Dawkins Gallery, Affordable Art Fair, Metropolitan Pavillion, New York City
1/13-6/13 Civil Rights Photographs, 1956-1968, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
1/13-3/13 Posing Beauty, curated by Deborah Willis, The College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, OH
12/12-3/13 The Segregation Story, Gordon Parks, et al, Arnika Dawkins Gallery, Atlanta, GA
11/12 Coal + Ice, Curated by Susan Meiselas and Jeroen de Vries, (sponsored by Asia Society)
Yixian International Photo Festival, Ming Dynasty Ancestral Hall, Anhui Province, China
9/12-11/12 Posing Beauty, curated by Deborah Willis, Figge Museum of Art,Davenport, Iowa
12/5/12 WBAI Benefit exhibition and auction, Stephen Kasher Gallery, NYC
6/12-8/12 Coal + Ice, Curated by Susan Meiselas and Jeroen de Vries, (sponsored by Asia Society) at The Resnick Gallery, Doerr-Hosier Center, The Aspen Institute, Aspen, Colorado
4/12-5/12 A Choice of Weapons: The New Renaissance Artists Tribute to Gordon Parks, 1199 SEIU Bread & Roses Gallery, NYC, Curated by African Voices and SAVAE
3/12-4/12 Gallery Review, Flomenhaft Gallery, New York City
2/12-4/12 Posing Beauty, curated by Deborah Willis, Everhart Museum, Scranton, PA
11/11-1/12 Mirrors and Reflections, Curated by Evelyne Z. Daitz with co-Curator Alison Bradley, Robert Anderson Gallery, 24 W. 57th Street, New York City
10/11 Builder Levy, a featured exhibition (13 photographs) at the Arnika Dawkins Gallery (Black & White and Color) in conjunction with Atlanta Celebrates Photography, Atlanta, GA
10/11-1/12 Photo Folio, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, Texas
9/11-12/11 Coal + Ice, Curated by Susan Meiselas and Jeroen de Vries, (sponsored by Asia Society) at Three Shadows Art Centre, Bejing, China
9/11-12/11 Posing Beauty, curated by Deborah Willis, USC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
6/11-8/11 Portraits, 5 photographs, Flomenhaft Gallery, N.Y.C.
3/11 AIPAD, 25 platinum prints at June Bateman Fine Art booth 425, NYC
2/11-5/11 Posing Beauty, curated by Deborah Willis, Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
1/11-until Energy Resources, National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum, Leadville, Colorado
10/10-1/11 Appalachian Photographers Project, Carroll Reece Museum, Eastern Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN, co-sponsored by the Mary B. Martin School of the Arts
9/10-11/10 Posing Beauty, curated by Deborah Willis, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamtown, MA
7/10-8/210 A Summer of Photography: Builder Levy, Carrie Mae Weems, Neil Folberg, Keily Anderson-Staley, Gerlovin & Gerlovina, Flomenhaft Gallery, NYC (Levy: 14 photos: Appalachia: ‘For Miners and Mountains’
6/10-8/10 Posing Beauty, curated by Deborah Willis, Taubman Museum,Roanoke, VA
5/10-7/10 Summer Invitational, 9 photos of Coal Appalachia, OK Harris Works of Art, N.Y.C.
3/10-9/10 Road to Freedom: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956-68, curated by Julian Cox, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
1/10-5/10 Posing Beauty, curated by Deborah Willis, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
12/09 Holiday Exhibition, Flomenhaft Gallery Annex, NYC
11/09-3/10 Road to Freedom: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956-68, curated by Julian Cox, Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
8/09-10/09 Posing Beauty, curated by Deborah Willis, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU, NYC
5/09-9/09 Road to Freedom: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956-68, Curated by Julian Cox The Field Museum, Chicago, IL
5/09-6/09 Flomenhaft Salon 2009, Flomenhaft Gallery, NYC
7/09-9/09 The Story of the Supremes from the Mary Wilson Collection, Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery, United Kingdom
3/09-6/09 The Story of the Supremes from the Mary Wilson Collection, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
1/09-4/09 Dancing Black Across Modern America, Centre National del la Danse, Pantin Cedex, France
1/09-3/09 African-American Art and Life, 7 photos, Flomenhaft Gallery, Chelsea, New York City
6/09-12/09 Learn, Promote, Defend, juried exhibition on Metro-Atlanta Billboards (one photo), Commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights –CCHR*
12/08 Learn, Promote, Defend, Commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights, juried benefit exhibition & auction (12/10), for Center for Civil & Human Rights, * Mason Murer Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
11/08-2/09 The Story of the Supremes from the Mary Wilson Collection, Grundy Art Gallery- Blackpool, United Kingdom
11/08 Road to Freedom: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956-68, Curated by Julian Cox, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, DC
9/08-12/08 1968: Then and Now, curated by Deborah Willis, Nathan Cummings Foundation, Chelsea, N.Y.C. 8 photos
9/08-11/08 1968: Then and Now, curated by Deborah Willis, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, N.Y.C. 8 photos
6/08-10/08 Road to Freedom: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956-68, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, Curated by Julian Cox. 3 photos
5/08-8/08 The Story of the Supremes from the Mary Wilson Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
2/08 The Fifth PAI Membership Photography Exhibition, National Arts Club, NYC
10/07 Photo Review benefit Auction Preview exhibit, Yossi Millo Gallery North, NYC
9/07-12/07 Here in New York: Remembering 9/11, New York Historical Society, NYC
6/07-9/07 Summer Invitational, 10 New York City Photos, OK Harris Works of Art, Soho, N.Y.C.
3/07 That 70s Show, New York City in the 1970s, PowerHouse Arena Gallery, Brooklyn, NYC
(5 photos)
12/06-1/07 Wild Weird & Wonderful, A Little Gallery at 1125, Philadelphia, PA
11/06-3/07 Mongolia: Beyond Chinggis Khan, Rubin Museum of Art, NYC—14 photos
10/06 Photo Review benefit Auction Preview exhibit, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
10/06 Photo New York (Photo Review benefit Auction Preview exhibit), NYC
9/06-1/07 Tropicalism, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ
11/05 Photo Review benefit Auction and Preview, University of the Arts, Phila, PA
10/05 Photo Review benefit Auction Preview, Sarah Morthland Gallery, NYC
12/04 pres. Appalachian Miner (Portfolio),Elkhorn Inn & Theatre, Landgraff, McDowell Cty, WV
10/03-11/03 The Affordable Art Fair, June Bateman Gallery, Pier 92, NYC
3/03 A.R.T. Benefit Auction Exhibition, Art Resources Transfer, Chelsea art district, NYC
3/03 In Motion/Justice for All Women, 10th Anniversary Auction & Benefit, Sotheby’s, NYC
1/03 June Bateman Gallery, 12th International Los Angeles Photographic Exposition
9/02—3/03 Graver la lumière, La Reconquête d’un Instrument Perdu, Musée Jenisch, Vevey, Switzerland
9/02 Vintage New York, June Bateman Gallery, 13 photos, Soho, NYC
5/02 Photography Show, Dragon Fly Gallery, Oak Bluffs, Martha’s Vineyard, MA
5/02 Craven Gallery, West Tisbury, Martha’s Vineyard, MA
5/02 A.R.T. Benefit Auction Exhibition Preview, Art Resources Transfer, Celsea, NYC
11/01 Photo Review Benefit Auction Exhibition Preview, University of the Arts, Phila, PA
9/01 Photo Review Benefit Auction Exhibition Preview, Sotheby's, NYC
6/01-8-01 Sotheby's Online Photography Auction, also 9/00-11/00
5/01-601 photo.soho, 3rd Biennial Exhibition/Auction, (on 5/30) ACE Programs for the Homeless, Exit Art, NYC
4/01 A.R.T. Benefit Auction Exhibition Preview Art Resources Transfer, Chelsea, NYC
3/01-9-01 Dressing for a New York City Childhood, Museum of the City of New York, NYC
4/00 Urban Landscape, Artnet Online Photography Auction
4/00 A.R.T. Benefit Auction Exhibition Preview, Art Resources Transfer, Chelsea, NYC
7/99 Taranto Collection, Taranto Gallery, N.Y.C.
5/99 A.R.T. Benefit Auction Exhibition Preview, Art Resources Transfer,Chelsea, NYC
2/99 AIPAD Exposition, Camera Obscura Gallery Booth # 126, New York Hilton Hotel, NYC, also included for the years 2/98, 3/97, 2/96
1/99 Conversation Exhibit with painter Emma Amos, Art Resources Transfer, Chelsea, NYC
10/98-1/99 Eight Million Stories, New York City Centenniel, The New York Public Library, NYC
10/98 Photo Review Benefit Auction Exhibition Preview Howard Greenberg Gallery, NYC
10/97 Photo Review Benefit Auction Exhibition Preview Swann Galleries, NYC
6/96 Masters of Photography, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto PA
4/96 The Art of Mongolia, Perry House Art Gallery, Alexandria VA
3/96 Der Soziale Blick (juried), ART Frankfurt 96, Germany
2/96 Contemporary Photographs of the American South, Columbus Museum, Georgia
1/96 Winter Show, Goldstrom Gallery, NYC
12/95 Holiday Show, E3 Gallery, NYC
11/95 Photo Review Benefit Auction Exhibition Preview Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA Also included in benefit exhibit & auction in 11/96, 10/94, 11/91, 4/90
7/95 Museum of Mongolian History, Ulaanbaatar
5/95 Benefit Auction Exhibition Preview Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts
9/94 Empire Beyond the Great Wall, American Museum of Natural History, NYC.
9/94 Anniversary Celebration, Russell Lee & Builder Levy, Lafayette Miners Museum, Lafayette, CO
10/93 Benefit Auction Exhibition Preview Center for Photography, Woodstock, NY
11/92 Benefit Auction Exhibition Preview, Silver Eye Center for Photography, Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA
11/92 Photo Review Benefit Auction Exhibition Preview, Nesbitt College of Design Arts, Drexel University, Philadelphia. PA
8/92 Recent Acquisitions, Marsh Gallery, Modlin Art Center, Univ. of Virginia, Richmond, VA
1/86 Black and White Photography, Recent Acquisitions, Brooklyn Museum, NYC
3/83 Das Andere Amerika/The Other America, Art and the Labor Movement in the United States, including 30 Builder Levy photographs, Kunsthalle Berlin, Germany, traveled to the following 16 other European galleries and exhibition spaces: 6/83 Stadtische Galerie, Oberhausen, Germany, 10/83, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden, 3/84 Kampnagelfabrik, Hamburg, Germany, 9/84 Festival Dell' Unita Press Festival, Rome, Italy, 11/84, Galerie Q, Pforzheim, Germany, 5/85 Kassel, Orangterie, Germany, 8/85 Kassel, Gesamthochscule, Germany, 11/85Royal Festival Hall, London, Great Britain, 10/86 Great Hall, Town Hall, Manchester, Great Britain, 12/86 Orchard Gallery, Derry Northern Ireland, 9/88 VHS Galerie, Bremerhaven, Germany, 5/88 European Parliament, Strassbourg, France, 5/89, The Workers Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark, 6/92 Filderhalle, Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Germany, 8/94 OGB Galerie, Graz, Austria, 4/94 Arbeiterkammer, Vienna, Austria
7/81 10th International Press Photo Exhibition, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
6/81 Photo Vision 81, (juried), Foto Gallery, NYC, Honorable Mention
12/79 Photographers Forum, Center for Photography at Woodstock, New York
11/79 Fourth Annual Show and Auction (12/2), Cameravision Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
10/79 American Vision, National Artists' Alliance, East Galleries, New York University, NYC; 2 Honorable Mentions
9/79 Fragments and Details, Architectural Photographs, Marcuse Pfeifer Gallery, NYC
9/78 Rosenblum Collection, Port Washington Library, Port Washington, NY
7/78 XI International Festival of Youth and Students, U.S. Exhibit, International Circle of Young Artists, Havana, Cuba
5/78 Rosenblum Collection, Queens Museum, NYC
4/78 Miners Art Group, West Virginia State Museum, Charleston, W.V., traveled to 9 other exhibit spaces including, 10/78 Richard M. Daly Center, Chicago, IL, 4/79 Southern West Virginia Community College, Logan, WV, 5/79 War Elementary School, War, WV, 6/79 West Virginia Institute of Technology, Montgomery, WV, 9/79 Beckley High School, Beckley, WV 10/79 Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 12/79 Reuther Library, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
4/78 2nd International Press Photography Exhibition, Riga, Latvia
2/78 Photographers Forum, Milwaukee Center of Photography, Milwaukee, WI
2/78 Artwords and Bookwords, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, traveled to 6/78 Franklin Furnace, NYC, 9/78, Herron School of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana, 10/78 New Orleans Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA
1/78 2nd International Press Photography Exhibition, Vilnus, Lithuania
12/77 New Talent, Port Washington Library, New York
10/77 2nd International Press Photography Exhibition, House of Friendship, Moscow; U.S.S.R., Awarded Third Prize and Prize of the Soviet Photo for Portfolio, Life of the Appalachian Coal Miner photographs
7/77 New Talent, Marcuse Pfeifer Gallery, NYC
2/77 African Americans, House of Friendship, Togliatti, U.S.S.R.
9/76 African Americans, House of Journalism, Moscow, U.S.S.R.
6/76 African Americans, State University of Leningrad, U.S.S.R.
10/75 Photographers Forum, Brooklyn Museum, NYC
2/75 Six Contemporary Artists, Union College, Schenectady, NY
5/74 Soho Gallery, NYC
4/74 Soho Gallery, NYC
3/74 Chile Emergency, O.K. Harris Gallery, NYC
8/73 Tenth World Youth Festival, Berlin, German Democratic Republic
5/73 Society for Photographic Education, New York Public Theater, NYC
8/69 Focus on Brooklyn, BACA, Brooklyn Museum, NYC
9/68 Afro-American Arts, Brooklyn Museum, NYC
8/66 Photographers Forum, Gallerias Norte Y Sur, Instituto Mexicano Norteamericano de Relaciones Culturales, A.C., Mexico
10/64 Photographers Forum, Donnell Library, NYC
GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS & COMMISSIONS
2008 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in Photography
2004 Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellowship: Selelcted from among the eight winners of the award to be named the Josephine Patterson Albright Fellow, 2004 for his photo project to revisit Appalachia.
2003 Furthermore, the Publication Program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund for Retrospective Monograph
2002 Appalachian College Association: Commission to photograph in Central Appalachia
2001 Puffin Foundation Grant to Photograph Demonstrations in New York City
1998 NYC Board of Education Photography Sabbatical
1982 National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artists Fellowship in Photography
1981-1982 NYC Board of Education Photography Sabbatical to Photograph in Ottawa in Winter
COLLECTIONS (Selected)
Emma Amos
Appalachian College Association
Appalachian Museum, Berea, KY
Arnika and Stephen Dawkins
Arnall Golden Gregory
James T. and Hanna Bartlett
Jean Carey Bond
Berea College Art Department
La Bibliotheque nationale
Bilderwelt (Reiinhard Schultz), Berlin, Germany
Brooklyn Museum
Chrysler Museum of Art
John Cleary Collection
Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA
Elkhorn Inn & Theatre, McDowell County, WV
Bruce and Barbara Feldacker Labor Art Collection
Peter Fetterman
Fondation William Cuendet & Atelier de Saint-Prex
Here in New York (New York Historical Society)
Highlander Research and Education Center
High Museum of Art
Houston Center for Photography
Indiana University Art Museum
International Center of Photography
Sir Elton John Collection of Photographs
Lafayette Miners Museum, Lafayette, CO
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC
Lincoln University
Marshall University, Huntington, WV
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Watson Library
Miner's Museum, Glace Bay, Nova Scotia.
Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Arts, Prints and Photog, N.Y. Public Library
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Museum of the City of New York
Museum of Mongolian History, Ulan Bator
National Gallery of Canada, (Archives), Ottawa
National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum, Leadville, Colorado
New York Historical Society
New York University Tisch School of the Arts Dept. of Photog. and Digital Imaging
National Mine, Health and Safety Academy, Beckley, WV
Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Photographic Archives, Ekstrom Library, University of Louisville
Photography Department, Middle Tennessee State University
Port Washington Public Library Videotape-Art Documentation Archive
John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art
The Rosenblum Collection
Ruhrland Museum, Essen, Germany
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Seattle Art Museum
Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art
Southeast Museum of Photography
Paul Strand Archives
Studio Museum of Harlem
Tampa Museum of Art
Spencer Throckmorton
United Mine Workers of America
University of Kentucky Art Museum
University of Richmond Museums, Virginia
Weatherford-Hammond Mountain Collection
Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
West Virginia Institute of Technology
West Virginia State University
West Virginia State Museum
PUBLICATIONS: Books
Appalachia USA Photographs by Builder Levy, 69 spot-varnished tritone photographs, 128 pages, hardback, 9 9/16” w x 12” H, foreword by Denise Giardina, designed by Jerry Kelly, David R. Godine, Publisher, Boston, 2014
Builder Levy Photographer, Introduction by Naomi Rosenblum, 143 spot-varnished tritone photographs, 169 pages, designed by Katy Homans, hardback, Art Resources Transfer/ART Press, New York, 2005
Builder Levy: Images of Appalachian Coalfields, Temple University Press; foreword by Cornell Capa, Introduction by Helen Lewis; 93 duotones, hardback, 1989
PUBLICATIONS: Portfolio
Life of the Appalachian Coal Miner, By Builder Levy, Portfolio--12 Stonetone photographs in a dye-cut, spot-varnished folder, 2 essays by Walter Rosenblum and Paul Nyden, respectively, printed by Sidney Rapoport, NY, 1976
(Selected) PUBLICATIONS: Included in Other’s Books
Harlem, A Century in Images, Studio Museum of Harlem, New York, 2010, Skira Rizzoli, essays by Thelma Golden, Deborah Willis, Cheryl Finley, and Elizabeth Alexander, photo on 107 and a 2 page spread on pp 178-179
Ain’t No Grave, The life and Legacy of Brother Claude Ely, by Macel Ely II, Dust to Digital, Altlanta, GA 2010, 2 photos: Coal Camp p 200, End of Shift, p 236
Coal Country, Rising Up Against Mountaintop Removal Mining, Sierra Club Books & ESP, Edited by Shirley Stewart Burns, Mari-Lynn Evans, and Silas House, 2009, including 2 photos on cover and 32 inside
100 New York Photographers, by Cynthia Maris Dantzic, Schiffer Publisher, 2009, 2-page spread including essay and 3 photos
Posing Beauty, by Deborah Willis, W.W. Norton, October 2009. 1 photo p. 45
Danses Noires Blanche Amerique, by Susan Manning, Centre National de la Danse, Pantin, France, 2008, book/catalogue for the eponymous exhibition, 1 photo, Harlem Peace March, Pp. 58, 120.
Road to Freedom: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956-68 by Julian Cox, and others, including 2 photos. p. 82. March on Washington, P. 141 Union Justice, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, 2008
Freedom: A Photographic History of the African American Struggle, Phaidon Press, Text by Manning Marable & Leith Mullings, Photo Ed. Sophie Spencer-Wood, London and New York, 2002, 5 photographs, pp. 324, 380, 398, 413
Where We Stand, Class Matters, by Bell Hooks, Routledge Press, NY, '00 Cover Photo, Donna Muncy
Cityscapes: A History of New York Images, by Deborah Dash Moore, Columbia University Press, NY, 01, (7 photos in duotone) and several paragraphs about Levy and his photographs, pp. 357, 385, 386, 388-89, 391, 403, 405.
Sago Mine Disaster, Appalachian Coalfield Stories, by B.L. Dotson-Lewis, Infinity Press, West Conshohocken, PA, 2007: first page includes Levy’s statement on Appalachian miners & heritage, 9 photos on pp,title page, 26, 27, 28, 35, 37, 229, 233, 251
Coal Hollow, Photographs and Oral Histories, by Ken Light and Melanie Light, Univ. of California Press, 2006, p. 3, two paragraphs by M.L. about Levy’s book Images of Appalachian Coalfields and his photograph, Donna Muncy.
Graver La Lumiere La Reconquete d’un Instrument Perdu, Fondation William Cuendet & Atelier de Saint-Prex, Cabinet des Estampes du Musée Jenisch, Vevey, Switzerland, 2002, 1 photo: Coal Camp
A History of McDowell County, by Jean Battlo, McClain Press, Parsons, WV, 2003, 1 photo, back cover, Gapgo Miners 2002, plus briefly tells of Levy’s coalfield photo project and book.
Freedomways Reader, Prophets in Their Own Country, Foreword by Julian Bond, Edit. by Esther Cooper Jackson, Westview Press, ‘00 1 photo p. 225
Mongolia,The Legacy of Chinggis Khan, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, Thames and Hudson, 1995 1 photo, p.18
Sociology, 6th Ed., Calhoun, Light & Keller, McGraw-Hill, 1993, 2 photos: Toby Moore (Black Miner at Eastern) and Brenda Ward.
City Play, Museum of the City of New York Exhibition Catalogue, Rutgers University Press, 1990, 2 photos: Dancing Girls, and Boy on Edifice, pp. 62, 171
Ausbeute.Bergbau und Bergarbeit in der Fotografie, Ruhrland Museum, Essen, 1989, Exhibition catalogue, 2 photos pp. 90, 165
The Other America, Art and the Labour Movement in the United States Edited by Philip Foner & Reinhard Schultz, Journeyman Press, London, 1985, Two paragraphs, pp. 155-156 by Naomi and Walter Rosenblum, in their essay, "Camera Images of Labor--Past and Present," 4 photos (3 duotones) pp. 156. 170, 171
Das Andere Amerika, Edited by Philip Foner & Reinhard Schultz,Neuen Gesellschaft fur Bildende Kunst NGBK, West Berlin, 1983, Two paragraphs, pp.491-492, Naomi and Walter Rosenblum, essay,"Sozial und Arbeiterfotogrfie in den USA seit 1840," 4 photos (3 duotones) pp. 492, 506, 507
OES 1988-1989, OffSite Educational Services Yearbook, Alternative High School Program of the New York City Board of Education, 36 photos
Alternative High Schools and Programs, 1988-89 NYC Board of Education Division of High Schools, Annual Report, 60 photos
Alternative High Schools and Programs, 1987-88 NYC Board of Education Division of High Schools, Annual Report, 92 photos
Alternative High Schools and Programs, 1986-87 NYC Board of Education Division of High Schools, Annual Report, 31 photos
Anthropology Today, CRM, Del Mar CA 1971, 4 photos. P.94, 101, 104, 105
Stuyvesant Heights, A Good Neighborhood in Need of Help, A Study by the Pratt Institute Planning Department, 1965, 15 photos
Social Planning by Elizabeth Wood, Pratt Institute Planning Department, 1965 Cover Photo
Standard Reference Encyclopedia Yearbook 1969, Standard Reference Library, Inc. NY 1970, section on photography, 1 photo p. 408
Brooklundian, (Brooklyn College Yearbook) 1964
Who's Who in American Art, 32 ed., 2012, Marquis Who's Who LLC, New Providence, NJ
Stuyvesant High School Alumni Today 2011, biographical essay, p 103A
(Selected) Catalogues, Periodicals
Jones, Christopher, Curator, The Ringling Vol 4 No 1 (Jan.-April 2015) : Builder Levy Appalachia USA, essay about Levy and his exhibition, 7/10-9/13, 2015, 5 photos pp 3,6,7
Cash, Stephanie, Photograph Magazine January/February 2015, Stephanie Cash: Review: Builder Levy Photographer exhibition (at Arnika Dawkins Gallery), photo: Toby Moore (Black Miner) p.58
17th Annual Friends of Friends Photography Auction Benefit for Children’s Healthcare in Asia, December 9, 2014, Catalogue, Friends Without a Border, NYC 1 Photo Toby Moore
Kippelen, Virginie, Atlanta: Builder Levy A retrospective at Arnika Dawkins Gallery, Wednesday 26 November 2014, L’Oeil de la Photographie The Eye of Photography includes review and 6 photographs: Jacqueline Santiago and Cathy Lindsey, Coney Island Couple, Donna Muncy, Pigeon Cloud, School Girls with Jasmin Blossoms, and I Am a (Wo)man
Stephanie Cash: Builder Levy: Photographer Arnika Dawkins Gallery, Atlanta, 11/12/14, include review plus photos: Toby Moore and Mount Olive Baptist Church
Kippelen, Virginie, Last Week to see exellent Builder Levy photo retrospective at Arnika Dawkins Gallery, Arts Atlanta, November 15, 2014, Includes review and photos: I Am a WOMAN, and Pigeon Cloud.
Annabella Jean-Laurent, Burnaway, November 14, 2014, Builder Levy at Arnika Dawkin Includes review with photos: Harlem Peace March, Oglesby Bedroom, Shelby Mari Hagen.
Photograph Magazine November/December 2014. Full page add: Builder Levy Photographer exhibition (10/18-11/22) at Arnika Dawkins Gallery in Atlanta, GA. 1 photo: Pigeon Cloud
2014 Photography auction, Catalogue Atlanta Celebrates Photography, benefit exhibition and live auction, October 17th 2014, Atlanta, GA I photo: Pigeon Cloud
Brooklyn College Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 2, Spring/Summer 2014, Brooklyn College Foundation: p. 39, An essay about Levy’s life and newest book, Appalachia USA. 1 photo: Oglesby Bedroom.
Goldenseal West Virginia Traditional Life, spring 2014, Appalachia USA, a review p. 72
Vanity Fair, Hot Type, review of Appalachia USA, Elissa Schappell,
February, 2014
Nyden, Paul, Review of book: Appalachia USA shows life in the coalfields, Saturday Gazette Mail, Charleston, WV, Nov. 30, 2013 includes two photos, in addition to front book jacket.
16th Annual Friends of Friends of Photography Auction Benefit for Children’s Healthcare in Asia, December 10, 2013, Catalogue, Friends without a Border, NYC, lot # S 129 1 photo.
The War Crimes Times, Fall, 2013, 2 photos, Harlem Peace March & End Racial Oppression, 1967 accompanying article: Commemorating the American war in Vietnam, by Howard Machtinger, p. 18
Appalachian Heritage, Winter 2013, Vol. 41 No.1, The 40th Anniversary Issue, Literary Quarterly, Loyal Jones Appalachian Center, Berea College, Ed. By George Brosi photos pp. 16, 11.
Art in America 2013 Guide to Museums Galleries Artists, August 2013: Flomenhaft Gallery p. 159
2 photos Harlem Peace March, End Racial Oppression, with article “Commemorating the American Vietnam War,” p 18
Appalachian Heritage, Winter 2013, Vol. 41 No.1, The 40th Anniversary Issue, Literary Quarterly, Loyal Jones Appalachian Center, Berea College, Ed. By George Brosi photos pp. 16, 11.
SXSE online photography magazine, Sept.-Oct. 2013, Feature on Children, 11 photos.
SXSE online photography magazine, May-June 2013 Feature on Street Photography, including 19 of Levy’s New York City images.
SXSE online photography magazine, March-April 2013, Feature on Cuba. Includes 9 photos.
SXSE online magazine, Vol III issue 2 February 2012: interview by Victoria Amador, Featured: 20 questions with Builder Levy, 20 photos. To login: Use sxsebuilder as both password and username and then click on archives.
Atlanta Journal Constitution, Dec. 29, 2012, Living Section, article about Arnika Dawkins Gallery: Dawkins says. “None of them [Atlanta Galleries] routinely show images that deal with aspects of black life shot by photographers such as Builder Levy or Elliot Erwitt.”
ArtNews, October 2012, Elisabeth Kley, review of one person exhibition, Developing Nations at Flomenhaft Gallery, includes photo, Zebras Nuzzling, p. 108,
Art in America 2012 Guide to Museums, Galleries, Artists: listed with Flomenhaft Gallery (#2792) p. 154
Photograph [Magazine] July-August 2012, Full page 4 color announcement with photograph: Builder Levy: “Developing Nations” at Flomenhaft Gallery, photo: Dorkass Daniel, Tanzania, p. 59
John A. Bennette (Essay about Builder Levy’s Appalachia USA photos with 20 Levy photos) In Memory of My Grandfather Part I, Part II, Part III Part IV on John A. Bennette’s facebook blog: Hanging with mr.bennette, February 2012
Arnika Dawkins Gallery, Atlanta, GA, 2011, a booklet, includes 3 Builder Levy photos and bio
Art in America 2011 Guide to Museums, Galleries, Artists, August 2011, listed with Flomenhaft Gallery (#2783) p. 155.
Notre Dame Magazine, Fall 2011, 2 photos Red Robin Inn & Oglesby Bedroom with short story, by Mark Phillips: Time Enough for a Story. (Distribution --150,000.)
Journal of the Print World Vol 33 No.3 July 2010, A Summer of Photography, The Flomenhaft Gallery, p. 4. Article and photographs: Builder Levy, Keliy Anderson-Staley, Carrie Mae Weems, Neil Folberg, and Gerlovin and Gerlovina.Road to Freedom, Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956-1968, p. 10, article including 2 photos by B.L.
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Beacon 9/10: Builder Levy: March on Washington Remembered
Appalachian Heritage, Spring 2010, (Vol 38 No. 2,) Literary Quarterly, Berea College, Ed. By George Brosi. Levy is the featured visual artist of this issue, including an essay about Levy by Samantha Cole, and 22 duotone photos, including front and back covers.
Cotter, Holland, Images That steered a Drive for Freedom, Weekend Arts, The New York Times, Friday, May 21, 2010 one photo: Union Justice, Martin Luther King Memorial March
The Photo Review Newsletter, April/May 2010, Front Cover photo: March on Washington, announcing road to freedom exhibit. At the Bronx Museum.
Journal of the Print World Vol 33 No.1 Winter 2010, Two Important Books, article by Builder Levy, p.29, 3 photos and includes quote from Levy about the new books, 100 New York Photographers, and Coal Country, both of which include Levy’s photographs.
The heart of your Life, The Life of your Art, The New York Public Library, Circulating Art & Pictures Collections, brochure for a panel of 6 artists: 42 Street Library, 11/27/09, includes bio, 1 Levy photo & photo of Levy.
Journal of the Print World Vol 32 No.4 Fall 2009, Posing Beauty, article by Builder Levy
p.138, 1 photo and includes quote from Levy about his Coney Island experience and photo.
Journal of the Print World Vol. 32 No. 1 Winter 2009, p. 16, African American Art and Life at Flomenhaft Gallery (featuring Builder Levy, Romeare Bearden Carrie Mae Weems et. al. (Article includes 1 photo.); p. 21, Road to Freedom: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956-1968, at the Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture, featuring Builder Levy, Bruce Davidson, Danny Lyons et. (Article & 1 photo.)
Learn Promote, Defend, calalogue for art exhibition and silent auction, Center for Civil & Human Rights, Atlanta, GA 2008 includes artist’s statement, bio and 2 photos
Bituminous Banter, brochure for coal week Nov. 2008, with Kathy Mattea, Builder Levy, Denise Giardina et al, 1 photo & bio, announcing Levy Exhibition & talk etc. Smoot Theater Parkersburg, West Virginia
Yochelson, Bonnie, Taking it to the Streets, The New York Times, Sunday Nov.2, 2008, City Section, p.4, 300 word essay about Builder Levy and his civil rights & peace demonstration photographs, including 6 photos.
1968: Then & Now, exhibition catalogue, written/curated by Deborah Willis, p. 11, artist’s statement & 1 photo, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, 2008
Journal of the Print World Vol. 31 No. 3 Summer 2008, Road to Freedom: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956-1968, Through October 5, 2008 at The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, Review by Builder Levy, p. 21 (2 vintage photos)
Brooklyn College Magazine, Spring 2008, Class Notes 1964, p 34 announces Guggenheim Fellowship and participation in exhibitions at the high Museum of Art and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
The New York Times, April 7, 2008, p. A15 full page announcement of Guggenheim foundation Fellowship winners
Journal of the Print World Vol 31 No.1 Winter 2008 Builder Levy’s Unforgettable Gold-Toned
Photographs, p.19, includes 3 photos.
SouthWings Conservation Through Aviation Calender 2008, 2 photos for month of Dec., Pinnacle Mountain Press, Erwin, TN
Journal of the Print World Vol 30 No.4 Fall 2007 Builder Levy Extending Photographic Traditions in Appalachia America, pp. 42-43 including 4 photos.
Gladstone, Valerie, a review of Summer Invitational, OK Harris, Art News, October 2007 p.216.
Doubletake/Points of Entry, vol. 2 # 2 Fall/Winter 2007 cover photograph, 7 Venezuela (2006) and Brazil (2007) photographs, and interview with Michael Coles, pp.94-100.
Journal of the Print World Vol 30 No.3 Summer 2007 Two articles with photos: Builder Levy in Summer Invitational at O.K. Harris and Builder Levy featured in Doubletake Magazine Fall/Winter 2007 issue
PowerHouse Magazine Issue 2 Spring 2007, Edited by Sara Rosen, That 70s Show: New York City in the 1970s,) 1 photograph p. 33 & bio. P. 13
Journal of the Print World Vol 30 No.2 Spring 2007, Builder Levy: Selected Works, full page article about OK Harris exhibit with 4 photos, p.8
Journal of the Print World Vol 30 No.1 Winter 2007, Builder Levy’s Photographs to be Shown in
PowerHouse Magazine, article about That 70s Show exhibit at powerhouse Arena and Magazine, both of which include Levy’s work, accompanied by 2 photos, p. 47.
Journal of the Print World Vol 30 No.1 Winter 2007, Builder Levy Gallery Talk: Mongolia: Beyond Chinggis Khan at the Ruben Museum of Art, New York, NY, article about Levy’s Mongolia work and exhibit, and 2 photos, p. 47
Journal of the Print World Vol 30 No.1 Winter 2007, Builder Levy: New York City, article about Hudson Guild Gallery exhibition, 2 photos, p. 41
Journal of the Print World Vol 30 No.4 Fall 2006, Builder Levy Photographer, article and 2 photos, p. 57.
Journal of the Print World. Vol 30 No.4 Fall 2006, Builder Levy: Beyond Chinggis Khaan: Mongolia Past and Present, article and 4 photos, P 54.
Journal of the Print World. Vol 29 No3 Summer 2006, Builder Levy: Children, article and three photos on p.23.
The Imagist, PAI (Photographic Administrators, Inc.) May 2006, review of Levy’s lecture at the National Arts Club, including photographs of Levy.
Al Francekevich, “Builder Levy”, The Imagist, PAI ((Photographic Administrators, Inc), April 2006, biographical article including review of Levy’s new book, plus photograph on cover.
Journal of the Print World Vol 29 No1 Winter 2006 Builder Levy Photographer, p.16. Article discusses the new book, Builder Levy Photographer, and includes quotes from Howard Greenberg, Duane Michaels and Alan Coleman.
My Daddy Was A Miner, written and edited by Rachel Bernstein (New York University--Tamiment/Bobst Library) 15 Builder Levy Appalachia photographs --
Alicia Patterson Foundation: Revisiting Appalachia,
Photo-eye, the international magazine for fine-art photography books, Winter 2005, half page including a photograph and a quote from introduction to Builder Levy Photographer
In Motion/Justice for All Women, 10th Anniversary Auction & Benefit at Sotheby’s, NYC, & Catalogue, 03, 1 Photo, essay, p.40
Journal of the Print World. Vol 27 No. 2 Spring 2004, Builder Levy Receives Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellowship for 2004, article about Levy includes 2 photos, p. 34
Jay DeFoore, article about the two photographers who won Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellowships for 2004, Photo District News, February 2004, includes one photo (p.14) from Levy’s project, Revisitng Appalachia
The Photo Review Newsletter, January/February 2004, announces Levy’s publication grant from Furthermore and his fellowship award from the Alicia Patterson Foundation
Editor & Publisher, Jan. 2004, The Alicia Patterson Foundation 39th Annual Competition, 2004 Fellowship. Photos of winners, including Levy, for his “Revisitng Appalachia” p. 43. Lists judges.
Editor & Publisher, Dec. 2003, The Alicia Patterson Foundation 39th Annual Competition, 2004 Fellowship. Photos of winners, including Levy, for his “Revisitng Appalachia” p. 61
The New York Sun, 10/16/ 02, 1 photograph and announcement of Vintage New York exhibit
Photography in New York, Sept/Oct 2002, 1 photograph, with full-page exhibition announcement, June Bateman Gallery: Vintage New York
Vineyard Gazette, Martha’s Vineyard, Mass., Fri., May 24, 2002, show at Dragonfly Gallery, 1 Photo
Narvaja, Lorelei, "The Resurgence of Social Activism in Photography," Artist Spectrum, Vol. 9, 2001, NY, pp 15-17, 1 photo (4 color repro)
Aletti, Vince, "Voice Choices," Village Voice, 6/5/01 p. 117, review of Levy’s exhibit at Art Resources Transfer gallery in Chelsea, NYC
Photography in New York, May/June 2001 1 photograph with exhibition announcement p 90
Photo District News, 2/99, 1 photo pp. 6, 157 (Snow on Melrose Street) Announcing Exhibition
Doubletake, Spr. '98 1 photo, p.35
Journal of the Print World, Fall '97, "Images of Appalachian Coalfields, Photographs by Builder Levy at Godwin-Ternbach Museum," 2 photos
Der Soziale Blick, ART Frankfurt 1996, Germany; Catalogue ART Frankfurt 1996 Invitational Exhibit, 1 photo—Fulton Street
Contemporary Photographs of the American South, A Personal Selection, Catalogue, Columbus Museum, GA, 1996 1 photo (Andrew Kosto 16 x 20” print)
PFA Newsletter (Photography in the Fine Arts Quarterly) 1/96 Vol. 13, No 1 Article about Levy's photog career and Mongolia exhibit at The Camera Obscura Gallery, 2 photos
Steve Dollar, "Southern Images Evoke the Land, People, Past," The Atlanta Journal/The Atlanta Constitution, Arts sect, L8-L9 3/17/96 1 photo
Catherine Tillette, Photo District News, 3/96 Vol. XVI Feature review of Appalachian Coal Miner exhibit at O.K. Harris Gallery, 1 photo p.109
Coal, A Blueprint for Understanding 20th Century Music, A Retrospective and Premiere of Music by Judith Shatin, Presented by Shepherd College, Shepherdstown, WV, 1994, 7 photos
The Dominion Post, 5/20/93 "Dig Coal History? Mine Comer Images," p. 6D includes a photo of exhibition and Comer Museum director, Cynthia Gay Bindoci
Lesia Paine-Brooks, "Photographer Sheds Light On Miners' Plight," Johnson City Press, 1/17/93, with 5 photos
Pat Lawrence, "New Exhibit Celebrates Appalachian Heritage," Washington County News, Parkersburg, WV, 8/27/93
Canvas, Knoxville Museum of Art, Summer 92, "Images of Appalachian Coalfields: Photographs by Builder Levy," 1 photo
Journal of the Print World, Summer 1992, "Images of Appalachian Coalfields, Photographs by Builder Levy at Knoxville Museum of Art," 1 photo,
Roy Proctor (Art), "Marsh Gallery Offers Haunting Photos of Miners," The Richmond News Leader, 1/18/92, 1 photo
Philip Frisbee, "Art's Harsh Realities," Style Weekly, Richmond Virginia,1/28/92, 1 photo
Photo District News, Dec. 1991, "Appalachian Coalfield Images Still Going Strong", 1 photo
John Dorsey, Sun Art Critic, "Stark Photographs Depict Miners' Bleak Existence," The Baltimore Sun, 9/30/91, 1 photo
Jennifer Dowd, "Levy Unearths Mining Truths," The Greyhound, Loyola College, Baltimore, MD, 9/23/91, 1 photo
The Berea Citizen, 7/11/91, "Levy to Present Two Programs At Berea College," 1 photo
Paul Nyden, "Images of Appalachian Coalfields, Builder Levy's Camera Depicts a Way of Life," Charleston Sunday Gazette-Mail, 3/24/91 6 photos
Ken Hechler, "Photo Exhibit on Miners at Cultural Center," The Cabell Record, Huntington, WV 3/27/91
Gail D. Taylor, "Photographer Captures Miners' Spirit," 1 photo p. 6-C Art , Dominion Post, Morgantown, WV 3/28/91
Stephen Perloff, "Portfolio George Harvan and Builder Levy: Coal Miners", The Photo Review, (Spring 1991) 6 photos
Journal of the Print World, Winter 1991, "Images of Appalachian Coalfields, An Exhibition of Photographs by Builder Levy, Alice Lloyd College," Pippa Passes, KY, 3 photos
Linda Butler, "Images of Appalachian Coalfields, Exhibit at University of Kentucky Art Museum," Images Ink, (1990 Vol. 5, No. 3/4) 3 photos
Journal of the Print World, Fall, 1990, "Images of Appalachian Coalfields, An Exhibition of Photographs by Builder Levy at University of Kentucky Art Museum," 1 photo
David Hill, "Focusing on the Positive", Teacher Magazine, 10/90, 6 (black and white) photographs in 4 color, pp.42-29.
F. Jack Hurley, Images of Appalachian Coalfields, The Journal of American History 9/90
Ken Sullivan, "Images of Appalachian Coalfields by Builder Levy", Pennsylvania History, Vol. 57, no. 2, 4/90
Charles Rotkin, "Images of Appalachian Coalfields," The Rotkin Review, Spring 1990
The Coalfield Progress, "Appalachian Photography Exhibit Coming to Appalshop, "Norton, Virginia, 5/3/90 1 photo
J.S. Taub,"Images of Appalachian Coalfields, Photographs by Builder Levy," Photo Metro, Vol 8, Issue 78, 4/90, San Francisco, 5 photos
David Bruce, "New Yorker's Photographs Record Appalachian Miners," The Athens News, 1/4/90 1 photo
A.D. Coleman, "Populist Images of Appalachia's Coal Towns," The New York Observer, 11/20/89, exhibition review, 2 photos
Photo District News, November 1989, "Exhibition of Coalfields," 1 photo
Nancy Madlin, "Images of Appalachian Coalfields," by Builder Levy, Photo District News 10/89, 1 photo
Becky Fleming, "Photographer Captures Miners' Lives," Charleston Daily Mail, 7/24/89, 4 photos
Ken Sullivan, "Coalfield Photography," p. 51, review, 1 photo, Goldenseal: Vol. 15, No 3 Fall '89
United Mine Workers Journal, 10/89, "Coalfield Images," 2 photos
Fred McDarrah, Review of Levy's Ledel Gallery retrospective, Village Voice, 4/5/83
N.Y. Amsterdam News, 3/12/83, Arts & Enter. (Mel Tapscott) Discusses Levy and his retrospective exhibit at Ledel Gallery, 1 photo
David Moin, "Life in Bushwick, A Photo Essay by Builder Levy," North Brooklyn News 2/23-29/81 2 photos
Photography Annual 1980-81 "American Vision": 1 photo Andrew Kosto p.97, 165 Levy explains how he made the photograph.
The New York Times, 11/2/80 1 photo
Miners Art Group (brochure), 1978, "Builder Levy" 2 photos
Judd Tully, “Bushwick Kids on Display at Brooklyn Museum: It’s a Hit!” Phoenix, July 13, 1978, p. 21, Brooklyn Heights. A description of Levy’ students’ photography exhibit
Photographs from the Collection of Naomi and Walter Rosenblum, The Queens Museum, Catalogue, 1978
Freedomways, a Quarterly Review of the Freedom Movement, Vol. 8, No 2 Spring 1978, Front Cover photo—Martin Luther King
Freedomways, a Quarterly Review of the Freedom Movement, Vol. 8, No 2 Spring 1968, Back Cover photos: Mrs. Dubois Peck, only granddaughter of W.E.B. Dubois, with Martin Luther King;
Pete Seeger, Len Chandler and Ossie Davis
Freedomways, Quarterly Review of the Freedom Movement, Vol. 8, No 3 Summer 1968, Front Cover photo: Family group watching Martin Luther King Memorial March
Freedomways, Quarterly Review of the Freedom Movement, Vol. 7, No 4 Fall 1967, Front Cover photo: Confrontation at the Pentagon
Jacob Deschin, "The Appalachian Coal Miner, A Portfolio," The Photo Reporter, 3/77 1 photo
David L. Shirley, "Revelation Through a Lens," The New York Times, L.I. sect, Sunday, 2/25/77, 1 photo
James Auer, art editor, "Art Vs. Activism in Duo Exhibition", The Milwaukee Journal, 4/11/76, 1 photo
Jacob Deschin, "Between Teacher and Student, Interviews, Walter Rosenblum and Builder Levy," 35 mm Photography, Summer '74, 2 photos
The Photographers Forum 1966, exhibition catalogue, group show, Galerias, Norte Y Sur, Instituto Mexicano Norteamericano del Relaciones Culturales, A.C. Photo: Old Lady and Shopping Bag, and bio summary.
New Horizons for Youth, "New York School Boycott," 1964, 6 photos: including front and back covers
Freedomways, Quarterly Review of the Freedom Movement, Vol. 4 No, 2 Spring, 1964, front cover photo and back cover--4 photos (NYC School Boycott)
PUBLICATIONS: Postcards, Notecards & Calenders
4 duotone postcards published by Photo Chronicles, Ltd., 1999, 1998,1996
1 duotone note-card, published by Photo Chronicles, Ltd., 2001
8 duotone postcards of Mongolia, published by U.S.-Mongolia Advisory Group, 1993
1 duotone note-card, published by Berea College Appalachian Museum, 1991
2 duotone postcards, (Red Robin Inn and Cows in Snowstorm) published by the Brooklyn Museum, 1990
2 postcards of 1960s protests, Women's Social Protest series, published by Helaine Victoria Press, Martinsville, IN
SouthWings Conservation Through Aviation Calender 2008, 2 photos for month of Dec., Pinnacle Mountain Press, Erwin, TN
Christian Appalachian Project Calender, Lancaster, KY, 1970, 2 photos
PUBLICATIONS: Online essays, reviews, interviews
Developing Nations: ,
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation:
shop/ArnikaDawkinsGallery 10 photographs (as of 8/8/13)
Here is New York on line benefit exhibition, , lot # 2683 & #5330
Sotheby's Online Photography Auction, also 9/00-11/00
photo.soho, 3rd Biennial Exhibition/Auction for the Homeless, Catalogue, NYC 2001
Urban Landscape, Artnet Online Photography Auction
Videotapes and Films about or including Levy’s photographs
Timescapes, New York at its Core, Museum of the City of New York, 2016, 1 photo, Dancing Girls
The Hustlers Convention a documentary about a Young Lords Poet to be premiered in 2015, includes Harlem Peace March
ATL 26 Atlanta TV vimeo: Builder Levy Photographer at the Arnika Dawkins Gallery: A Look at the work of Social Documentary Photographer Builder Levy, and how he uses his camera as a tool for change
The Boomers List, directed by Timothy Greenfield-Saunders, aired on PBS on 9/21/14 includes Harlem Peace March
BET TV Tribute to Stevie Wonder, February 2012 include Harlem Peace March photo in 4 ½ min. video on you tube.
Melvin and Jean: An American Story, Maia Wechsler, 2012 (includes Harlem Peace March photo) Feature documentary film.
Kathy Mattea, Hello My Name is Coal, DVD with Builder Levy’s Appalachia photographs, Sugar hill Records, 2012
ABC TV interview relating to Levy’s photographs in the Road to Freedom exhibition at the Bronx Museum of the Arts. 3/25/10 (5 o’clock news)
Porgy and Bess, The Montalvo-Hervieu Dance Company with the Opera National de Lyon 2008. Includes a projection of Harlem Peace March photo
Mountain Mourning by Patchwork Films--BJ Gudmundsson 2006
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day: The Making of A Dream, directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Chuck Workman, produced by Calliope Films for the U.S. Dept. of Education in 2004, included one of Levy’s photographs. Only 7 still images including the one of Levy’s were included. Aired on the History Channel on 1/19/04 and distributed to schools throughout the U.S.
Half hour videotaped interview produced by West Virginia Public TV in Beckley, aired statewide on March 20, 1991: Builder Levy interviewed by John Bauman.
Making Sense of the Sixties, PBS series, produced by Varied Directions Inc. produced by Varied Directions Inc. (Broadcast January 21-23, 1991). Includes photograph: Memphis Woman—Marin Luther King Memorial March, Memphis, TN 1968
Photographs featured in the video documentary, Voices of Appalachia, produced by Family Theater Production,1996
Art Documentation Archive, Port Washington Public Library
INTERVIEWS, SYMPOSIUM, LECTURES
The heart of your Life, The Life of your Art, 6 artists, 42 Street Library, South Court Auditorium, Stephen A Schwartzman Bldg., symposium and showing of a video interview made by Story Corps, including Levy’s photographs, 11/27/09.
Appalachia USA, panel, Growing Up in a Coal Camp with Denise Giardina, Felice Jorgeson, Ralph Holder, Marshall Stanley, and Bob Harris, Parkersburg Art Center, 11/3/08 7 pm
Appalachia USA, talk to Rotary Altrusa Club, at the Parkersburg Art Center, noon, 11/3/08
Appalachia USA, talk at artist’s reception, Doris Ulmann Galleries, Berea College, 10/8/08.
RECENT SLIDE LECTURES AND GALLERY TALKS
2/5/15 Annual Diversity Artist’s Lecture at Arnall Golden, Gregory, Atlanta, GA at their exhibition, Builder Levy Photographer
10/18/14 Gallery Talk, Armika Dawkins Gallery (exhibition Builder Levy Photogapher)
5/4/10 Panel: Identities, Cultural Identity in Contemporary Art, Active Liberty Institute, Phillips de Pury & Company, NYC
11/27/09 Panel of 6 artists: The heart of your Life, The Life of your Art, 42 Street Library
11/3/08 Appalachia USA, Gallery Talk, To The Rotary Club Luncheon, Parkersburg Art Center, Parkersburg, West Virginia
11/5/08 Appalachia USA, Gallery talk with Edison Middle School, (Woods County) children, at the Parkersburg Art Center
10/8/08 Gallery Talk, Doris Ulmann Galleries, Berea College, Berea Kentucky
6/3/08 International Center of Photography School, (Harvey Stein’s Class) NYC
3/23/07 Gallery talk with Hudson Guild seniors, NYC
3/21/07 Gallery talk with Hudson Guild children’s groups, NYC
2/27/07 Pictorial Photographers of America, NYC
2/2/07 Gallery Talk, Mongolia exhibit, Rubin Museum of Art, NYC
12/9/06 Guest Photographer artist’s talk, Soho Photo, NYC
11/13/06 Club Artist’s talk, Parkwest Camera Soho Photo, NYC
10/16/06 Mid-Manhattan Library, New York Public Library Artist Lecture Series, NYC
7/13/06 Artist’s talk, Abrons Arts Center, Henry Street Settlement, NYC
4/20/06 PAI, National Arts Club, NYC
4/12/06 NYU Tisch School of the Arts Photography Department ( Editha Mesina’s class)
2/9/06 Labor Arts, Robert Wagner Labor Archives and Tamiment Library, New York University, SEIU Bldg., NYC
12/1/05 International Center of Photography School, (Harvey Stein’s Class) NYC
TEACHING
12/65-6/2000 NYC Teacher of "at-risk" adolescents: Art, Photography, Creative Writing
7/98 Prague School for Photographic Studies-- Social Documentary Workshop
2/88-6/89 Direct/teach Lower East Side Photography Workshop at the Puerto Rican Girls Club (GED Program), Jacob Riis Houses, NYC
2/75-1/88 Director of the Bushwick Youth Photography Workshop, Bushwick, Brooklyn
2/74-1/76 Beginning and Advanced Photography, Kingsborough Community College, CUNY (hired by Larry Fink)
4/69-7/70 Director, Photography Workshop, Oceanhill-Brownsville Experimental School District.
INFORMAL EDUCATION
1973-76 Friendship with Paul Strand: Lived with Strand for 10 days in his East Fifth Street apartment, New York City, 2/73
11/74 Mentored by Minor White in exhibit design at Soho Photo (gallery), where both he and Levy were hanging one person shows.
1974-2009 Friendship with Helen Levitt
1961-2006 Friendship with Walter Rosenblum
1965 present Friendship with Naomi Rosenblum
1/67 Informal printing tutorial with Ralf Steiner
1963-81 Member, Photographer's Forum, NYC (Chairman, 10/70-10/73, 10/76-10/78)
EDUCATION
1966 M.A. in Art Education, New York University, metal welding sculpture with Jason Sealy, Printmaking with Robert Blackburn. As part of research for a paper for an education class (Teaching Difficult Students in the Secondary Schools) Levy sat in on, and befriended members of the Kamoinge Workshop, including its founder/advisor Roy DeCarava; visited Larry Fink’s program at Haryou Act in Harlem; and studied the photography program of the Farm Security Administration and Photo League. The paper became the basis for youth photograph workshops Levy later set up and directed in Oceanhill Brownsville (1968-1970), Bushwick (1975-1987) and on the Lower East Side (1988-1989).
1964 B.A. in Fine Art, Brooklyn College, photography and honors photography with Walter Rosenblum; honors painting with Ad Reinhardt; art history with Milton Brown and David Sawin. Received All Arts Award 1964.
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