Publisher's Synopsis
A serious chronicle of war and a sympathetic even moving portrayal of the soldier s hopeless stoicism. " "New York Times"
First published to little notice in 1977, "Hitler Moves East" is now widely regarded as a groundbreaking classic of modern photography. In this elegant, large-format limited edition, David Levinthal and Garry Trudeau s seminal book is finally being presented at a scale that does full justice to their haunting vision of war.
As the "New York Times" pointed out ten years after publication, Levinthal s war pictures are radically new," and indeed they were. Using cheap, molded plastic toy soldiers and tanks, art school classmates Trudeau and Levinthal conceived a fascinating new narrative form, a paper movie, at once deeply evocative and unabashedly fake. Combining selected archival materials with photographs of 1/35-scale toys placed in meticulously constructed miniature settings, the two artists conjured up an astonishing reimagining of World War II s most epic campaign the German invasion of the Soviet Union. Traveling precariously between fantasy and reality, Levinthal and Trudeau produced a work now recognized as both a sublime graphic manifesto and a powerful documentary of men at war."
