BUILDER LEVY Resume
ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2/16-3-16
7/15-9/15
Appalachia USA, Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
Appalachia USA, Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL
12/14-2/15
10/14-11/15
4/13-8/13
6//12-8//12
11/08
10/08-11/08
4/07-5/07
2/07-4/07
12/06
6/06-8/06
Builder Levy Photographer, Arnall Golden Gregory, Atlanta, GA
Builder Levy Photographer, Arnika Dawkins Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Platinum, Gold, Silver Photographs, Arnika Dawkins Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Developing Nations, Flomenhaft Gallery, Chelsea, New York City
Appalachia USA, Parkersburg Art Center, Parkersburg, WV
Appalachia USA, Doris Ulmann Galleries, Berea College, Berea, KY
Builder Levy Selected Work, O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York City
Builder Levy: New York City, Guild Gallery, Hudson Guild Elliot Center, Chelsea, NYC
Builder Levy Photographer Guest Photographer, Soho Photo, New York City
Builder Levy: Children, Culpepper Gallery, Abrons Arts Center, Henry Street Settlement,
NYC
Builder Levy Photographer, Labor Arts, Tamiment Library, and Robert Wagner
Labor Archives, New York University Bobst Library, NYC
Appalachian Coalfield Images, Appalachian College Association Ledford Scholarship
Endowment Dinner, Harvard Club, NYC
Life of the Appalachian Coal Miner, (Portfolio) 12th Annual Mountain Music Festival,
Big Creek People in Action, Caretta, McDowell County, WV
Life of the Appalachian Coal Miner, (Portfolio) Mountain Eagle, Whitesburg, KY
Then and Now, Demonstrations in the 1960's and the New Millenium, Art Resources
Transfer, Chelsea art district, NYC
New York City Photographs as Digitally Blownup C-Prints, Art Resources Transfer,
NYC
Mongolia, Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art, Staten Island, NYC
Images of Appalachian Coalfields, Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Queens College, CUNY,
NYC
Mongolia, Land of Chinggis Khan, Embassy of Mongolia, Washington, DC
Images of Appalachian Coalfields, OK Harris Works of Art Gallery, NYC
Mongolia, Land of Chinggis Khan, Camera Obscura Gallery, Denver, CO
Two Sides of the World:Appalachia and Mongolia, A Personal Vision, Gallery Taranto,
NYC
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:
Shepherd College Arts Center, Shepherdstown, WV
Baldwin Photographic Gallery, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN
Parkersburg Art Center, Parkersburg, WV.
COMER Museum, now the Royce J. and Carolyn B. Watts Museum, West Virginia
Univeristy, Morgantown, WV
Carroll Reece Museum, Johnson City, TN
Ekstrom Library, Univ. of Louisville, KY
Kentucky Highlands Museum, Ashland, KY
Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN
Marsh Gallery, Modlin Fine Arts Center, University of Richmond, VA
Loyola College Art Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Appalachian Museum, Berea College, Berea, KY
West Virginia State Museum, Charleston, WV
Alice Lloyd College Art Gallery, Pippa Passes, KY
2/06-4/06
9/20/04
8/7/04
8/02
6/01
1/00-2/00
6/98
11/97
4/96
3/96
1/96
2/95
7/94
11/94
1/94
8/93
5/93
1/93
11/92
8/92
6/92
1/92
9/91
6/91
3/91-5/91
1/91
Builder Levy
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11/90
9/90
6/90
3/90
1/90
11/89
7/89
9/86
3/83
1/81
11/80
3/78
12/77
4/76
4/76
11/74
11/69
6/68
Gallery of Fine Arts, Daytona Beach Community College, Daytona, FL
University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington, KY
Johnstown Art Museum, Johnstown, PA
Appalshop, Whitesburg, KY
Trisolini Gallery, Ohio University, Athens, OH
Midtown Y Gallery, NYC
International Center of Photography, NYC
Life of the Appalachian Coal Miner, Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University,
Tempe, AZ
Twenty Years of Photography, Ledel Gallery, NYC
Bushwick, Foto Gallery, NYC
Life of the Appalachian Coal Miner, Guest Photographer, Soho Photo Gallery, NYC
Life of the Appalachian Coal Miner, West Virginia Institute of Technology,
Montgomery,WV
Life of the Appalachian Coal Miner, Double Exposure Gallery, NYC
Life of the Appalachian Coal Miner, Milwaukee Center of Photography, Milwaukee, WI
Life of the Appalachian Coal Miner, Della Brown Talyor Art Gallery, West Virginia
State College (now University ), Institute, WV
Life of the Appalachian Coal Miner, Soho Photo Gallery, NYC (
Soul of the Appalachian Mountain People, Donnell Library, NYC
Memphis to Atlanta: A King Memorial, Coleman Intermediate School 271K, Brooklyn,
NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016
3/15-4/15
12/9/14
10/17/14
9/14-12/14
5/14-8/14
4/14-6/14
3/14-7/14
1/14-3/14
Timescapes, New York at its Core, Museum of the City of New York, 1 photo
Dancing Girls
The I of the Camera, 12 Appalachia USA photographs, Flomenhaft Gallery, NYC
17th Annual Friends of Friends Photography benefit exhibition/auction for Friends
Without A Border, Benefit exhibition/Auction, Metropolitan Pavilion, NYC
Atlanta Celebrates Photography Benefit exhibition/Auction, Mason Murer Fine Arts,
Atlanta, GA (including a bidding war over my photo: Pigeon Cloud)
The Growth of a Collection, Part I: 1981-2001, Southeast Museum of Photography,
Daytona Beach, FL
Posing Beauty, curated by Deborah Willis, Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, VA
Objective-Subjective, LeClerc Contemporay, Norwalk, CT
In the Streets, Photographs of Urban Spaces, John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art,
Sarasota, FL
Posing Beauty, curated by Deborah Willis, Evansville Museum, Evansville, IN
9/13-12/13
12/13/13
Posing Beauty, curated by Deborah Willis, Spellman College, Atlanta, GA
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
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6/12-8/12
4/12-5/12
3/12-4/12
2/12-4/12
11/11-1/12
10/11
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
A Choice of Weapons: The New Renaissance Artists Tribute to Gordon Parks, 1199
SEIU Bread & Roses Gallery, NYC, Curated by African Voices and SAVAE
Gallery Review, Flomenhaft Gallery, New York City
Posing Beauty, curated by Deborah Willis, Everhart Museum, Scranton, PA
Mirrors and Reflections, Curated by Evelyne Z. Daitz with co-Curator Alison Bradley,
Robert Anderson Gallery, 24 W. 57th Street, New York City
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
9/11-12/11
9/11-12/11
6/11-8/11
3/11
2/11-5/11
1/11-until
10/10-1/11
9/10-11/10
7/10-8/210
6/10-8/10
5/10-7/10
3/10-9/10
1/10-5/10
12/09
11/09-3/10
8/09-10/09
5/09-9/09
5/09-6/09
7/09-9/09
3/09-6/09
1/09-4/09
1/09-3/09
6/09-12/09
12/08
11/08-2/09
11/08
Photo Folio, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, Texas
Coal + Ice, Curated by Susan Meiselas and Jeroen de Vries, (sponsored by Asia Society)
at Three Shadows Art Centre, Bejing, China
Posing Beauty, curated by Deborah Willis, USC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Portraits, 5 photographs, Flomenhaft Gallery, N.Y.C.
AIPAD, 25 platinum prints at June Bateman Fine Art booth 425, NYC
Posing Beauty, curated by Deborah Willis, Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
Energy Resources, National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum, Leadville, Colorado
Appalachian Photographers Project, Carroll Reece Museum, Eastern Tennessee State
University, Johnson City, TN, co-sponsored by the Mary B. Martin School of the Arts
Posing Beauty, curated by Deborah Willis, Williams College Museum of Art,
Williamtown, MA
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’
Posing Beauty, curated by Deborah Willis, Taubman Museum,Roanoke, VA
Summer Invitational, 9 photos of Coal Appalachia, OK Harris Works of Art, N.Y.C.
Road to Freedom: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956-68, curated by Julian
Cox, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
Posing Beauty, curated by Deborah Willis, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Holiday Exhibition, Flomenhaft Gallery Annex, NYC
Road to Freedom: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956-68, curated by Julian
Cox, Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
Posing Beauty, curated by Deborah Willis, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU, NYC
Road to Freedom: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956-68, Curated by
Julian Cox The Field Museum, Chicago, IL
Flomenhaft Salon 2009, Flomenhaft Gallery, NYC
The Story of the Supremes from the Mary Wilson Collection, Bristol City Museum and
Art Gallery, United Kingdom
The Story of the Supremes from the Mary Wilson Collection, Birmingham Museum and
Art Gallery
Dancing Black Across Modern America, Centre National del la Danse, Pantin Cedex,
France
African-American Art and Life, 7 photos, Flomenhaft Gallery, Chelsea, New York City
Learn, Promote, Defend, juried exhibition on Metro-Atlanta Billboards (one photo),
Commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights –CCHR*
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
The Story of the Supremes from the Mary Wilson Collection, Grundy Art GalleryBlackpool, United Kingdom
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
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9/08-12/08
9/08-11/08
6/08-10/08
5/08-8/08
2/08
10/07
9/07-12/07
6/07-9/07
3/07
12/06-1/07
11/06-3/07
10/06
10/06
9/06-1/07
11/05
10/05
12/04 pres.
10/03-11/03
3/03
3/03
1/03
9/02—3/03
9/02
5/02
5/02
5/02
11/01
9/01
6/01-8-01
5/01-601
4/01
3/01-9-01
4/00
4/00
7/99
5/99
2/99
1/99
10/98-1/99
10/98
10/97
6/96
4/96
3/96
2/96
1/96
1968: Then and Now, curated by Deborah Willis, Nathan Cummings Foundation,
Chelsea, N.Y.C. 8 photos
1968: Then and Now, curated by Deborah Willis, Tisch School of the Arts, New York
University, N.Y.C. 8 photos
Road to Freedom: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956-68, High Museum of
Art, Atlanta, Georgia, Curated by Julian Cox. 3 photos
The Story of the Supremes from the Mary Wilson Collection, Victoria and Albert
Museum, London, UK
The Fifth PAI Membership Photography Exhibition, National Arts Club, NYC
Photo Review benefit Auction Preview exhibit, Yossi Millo Gallery North, NYC
Here in New York: Remembering 9/11, New York Historical Society, NYC
Summer Invitational, 10 New York City Photos, OK Harris Works of Art, Soho, N.Y.C.
That 70s Show, New York City in the 1970s, PowerHouse Arena Gallery, Brooklyn, NYC
(5 photos)
Wild Weird & Wonderful, A Little Gallery at 1125, Philadelphia, PA
Mongolia: Beyond Chinggis Khan, Rubin Museum of Art, NYC—14 photos
Photo Review benefit Auction Preview exhibit, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Photo New York (Photo Review benefit Auction Preview exhibit), NYC
Tropicalism, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ
Photo Review benefit Auction and Preview, University of the Arts, Phila, PA
Photo Review benefit Auction Preview, Sarah Morthland Gallery, NYC
Appalachian Miner (Portfolio),Elkhorn Inn & Theatre, Landgraff, McDowell Cty, WV
The Affordable Art Fair, June Bateman Gallery, Pier 92, NYC
A.R.T. Benefit Auction Exhibition, Art Resources Transfer, Chelsea art district, NYC
In Motion/Justice for All Women, 10th Anniversary Auction & Benefit, Sotheby’s, NYC
June Bateman Gallery, 12th International Los Angeles Photographic Exposition
Graver la lumière, La Reconquête d’un Instrument Perdu, Musée Jenisch, Vevey,
Switzerland
Vintage New York, June Bateman Gallery, 13 photos, Soho, NYC
Photography Show, Dragon Fly Gallery, Oak Bluffs, Martha’s Vineyard, MA
Craven Gallery, West Tisbury, Martha’s Vineyard, MA
A.R.T. Benefit Auction Exhibition Preview, Art Resources Transfer, Celsea, NYC
Photo Review Benefit Auction Exhibition Preview, University of the Arts, Phila, PA
Photo Review Benefit Auction Exhibition Preview, Sotheby's, NYC
Sotheby's Online Photography Auction, also 9/00-11/00
photo.soho, 3rd Biennial Exhibition/Auction, (on 5/30) ACE Programs for the Homeless,
Exit Art, NYC
A.R.T. Benefit Auction Exhibition Preview Art Resources Transfer, Chelsea, NYC
Dressing for a New York City Childhood, Museum of the City of New York, NYC
Urban Landscape, Artnet Online Photography Auction
A.R.T. Benefit Auction Exhibition Preview, Art Resources Transfer, Chelsea, NYC
Taranto Collection, Taranto Gallery, N.Y.C.
A.R.T. Benefit Auction Exhibition Preview, Art Resources Transfer,Chelsea, NYC
AIPAD Exposition, Camera Obscura Gallery Booth # 126, New York Hilton Hotel, NYC,
also included for the years 2/98, 3/97, 2/96
Conversation Exhibit with painter Emma Amos, Art Resources Transfer, Chelsea, NYC
Eight Million Stories, New York City Centenniel, The New York Public Library, NYC
Photo Review Benefit Auction Exhibition Preview Howard Greenberg Gallery, NYC
Photo Review Benefit Auction Exhibition Preview Swann Galleries, NYC
Masters of Photography, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto PA
The Art of Mongolia, Perry House Art Gallery, Alexandria VA
Der Soziale Blick (juried), ART Frankfurt 96, Germany
Contemporary Photographs of the American South, Columbus Museum, Georgia
Winter Show, Goldstrom Gallery, NYC
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12/95
11/95
7/95
5/95
9/94
9/94
10/93
11/92
11/92
8/92
1/86
3/83
7/81
6/81
12/79
11/79
10/79
9/79
9/78
7/78
5/78
4/78
4/78
2/78
2/78
1/78
12/77
Holiday Show, E3 Gallery, NYC
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
Museum of Mongolian History, Ulaanbaatar
Benefit Auction Exhibition Preview Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh Center
for the Arts
Empire Beyond the Great Wall, American Museum of Natural History, NYC.
Anniversary Celebration, Russell Lee & Builder Levy, Lafayette Miners Museum,
Lafayette, CO
Benefit Auction Exhibition Preview Center for Photography, Woodstock, NY
Benefit Auction Exhibition Preview, Silver Eye Center for Photography, Univ. of
Pittsburgh, PA
Photo Review Benefit Auction Exhibition Preview, Nesbitt College of Design Arts,
Drexel University, Philadelphia. PA
Recent Acquisitions, Marsh Gallery, Modlin Art Center, Univ. of Virginia, Richmond,
VA
Black and White Photography, Recent Acquisitions, Brooklyn Museum, NYC
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
10th International Press Photo Exhibition, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Photo Vision 81, (juried), Foto Gallery, NYC, Honorable Mention
Photographers Forum, Center for Photography at Woodstock, New York
Fourth Annual Show and Auction (12/2), Cameravision Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
American Vision, National Artists' Alliance, East Galleries, New York University, NYC;
2 Honorable Mentions
Fragments and Details, Architectural Photographs, Marcuse Pfeifer Gallery, NYC
Rosenblum Collection, Port Washington Library, Port Washington, NY
XI International Festival of Youth and Students, U.S. Exhibit, International Circle of
Young Artists, Havana, Cuba
Rosenblum Collection, Queens Museum, NYC
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
2nd International Press Photography Exhibition, Riga, Latvia
Photographers Forum, Milwaukee Center of Photography, Milwaukee, WI
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
2nd International Press Photography Exhibition, Vilnus, Lithuania
New Talent, Port Washington Library, New York
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10/77
7/77
2/77
9/76
6/76
10/75
2/75
5/74
4/74
3/74
8/73
5/73
8/69
9/68
8/66
10/64
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
New Talent, Marcuse Pfeifer Gallery, NYC
African Americans, House of Friendship, Togliatti, U.S.S.R.
African Americans, House of Journalism, Moscow, U.S.S.R.
African Americans, State University of Leningrad, U.S.S.R.
Photographers Forum, Brooklyn Museum, NYC
Six Contemporary Artists, Union College, Schenectady, NY
Soho Gallery, NYC
Soho Gallery, NYC
Chile Emergency, O.K. Harris Gallery, NYC
Tenth World Youth Festival, Berlin, German Democratic Republic
Society for Photographic Education, New York Public Theater, NYC
Focus on Brooklyn, BACA, Brooklyn Museum, NYC
Afro-American Arts, Brooklyn Museum, NYC
Photographers Forum, Gallerias Norte Y Sur, Instituto Mexicano Norteamericano de
Relaciones Culturales, A.C., Mexico
Photographers Forum, Donnell Library, NYC
GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS & COMMISSIONS
2008
2004
2003
2002
2001
1998
1982
1981-1982
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in
Photography
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.
Furthermore, the Publication Program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund for
Retrospective Monograph
Appalachian College Association: Commission to photograph in Central
Appalachia
Puffin Foundation Grant to Photograph Demonstrations in New York City
NYC Board of Education Photography Sabbatical
National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artists Fellowship in Photography
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
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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
Builder Levy
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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
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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
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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
http://www.loeildelaphotographie.com/2014/11/26/exhibition/26715/atlanta-builder-levya-retrospective-at-arnika-dawkins-gallery
Stephanie Cash: Builder Levy: Photographer Arnika Dawkins Gallery, Atlanta, 11/12/14,
include review plus photos: Toby Moore and Mount Olive Baptist Church
https://www.photographmag.com/newsandreviews/view/516
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. http://www.artsatl.com/2014/11/builder-levy-photo-retrospectivearnika-dawson-gallery/
Annabella Jean-Laurent, Burnaway, November 14, 2014, Builder Levy at Arnika Dawkin
Includes review with photos: Harlem Peace March, Oglesby Bedroom, Shelby Mari Hagen.
http://burnaway.org/200-words-builder-levy-arnika-dawkins/
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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
http://www.scribd.com/doc/176266297/War-Crimes-Times-Fall-2013 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,
www.sxsemagazine.com Featured: 20 questions with Builder Levy, 20 photos. To login: Use
sxsebuilder as both password and username and then click on archives.
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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
http://mrbennette.blogspot.com/2012/02/in-memory-of-my-grandfather.html
http://mrbennette.blogspot.com/2012/02/in-memory-of-my-grandfather-part-2.html
http://mrbennette.blogspot.com/2012/02/in-memory-of-my-grandfather-part-3.html
http://mrbennette.blogspot.com/2012/02/in-memory-of-my-grandfather-part-4.html
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.
Builder Levy: Remembering the March on Washington for ...
Guernica Sep 1, 2010 https://www.guernicamag.com/.../builder_levy_remembering_t...
Builder Levy: Remembering the March on Washington for ...
Beacon Broadside.com 9/10: Builder Levy: March on Washington Remembered
http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2010/09/remembering-the-march-on-washingtonfor-jobs-and-freedom.html
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
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/21/arts/design/21civil.html?ref=photography
The Photo Review Newsletter, April/May 2010, Front Cover photo: March on Washington,
announcing road to freedom exhibit. At the Bronx Museum.
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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, 19561968, 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.
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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 www.laborarts.org -Alicia Patterson Foundation: Revisiting Appalachia, www.aliciapatterson.org
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
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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
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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
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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 2/2329/81 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
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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
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PUBLICATIONS: Online essays, reviews, interviews
Developing Nations: http://www.flomenhaftgallery.com/june-2012-developing-nations.html,
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation: http://www.gf.org/fellows/8730-builder-levy
Amazon.com/shop/ArnikaDawkinsGallery 10 photographs (as of 8/8/13)
Here is New York on line benefit exhibition, www.hereisnewyork.org, 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.
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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)
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local&id=7350582
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
10/18/14
5/4/10
11/27/09
Annual Diversity Artist’s Lecture at Arnall Golden, Gregory, Atlanta, GA at their
exhibition, Builder Levy Photographer
Gallery Talk, Armika Dawkins Gallery (exhibition Builder Levy Photogapher)
Panel: Identities, Cultural Identity in Contemporary Art, Active Liberty Institute,
Phillips de Pury & Company, NYC
Panel of 6 artists: The heart of your Life, The Life of your Art, 42 Street Library
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11/3/08
11/5/08
10/8/08
6/3/08
3/23/07
3/21/07
2/27/07
2/2/07
12/9/06
11/13/06
10/16/06
7/13/06
4/20/06
4/12/06
2/9/06
12/1/05
Appalachia USA, Gallery Talk, To The Rotary Club Luncheon, Parkersburg Art
Center, Parkersburg, West Virginia
Appalachia USA, Gallery talk with Edison Middle School, (Woods County)
children, at the Parkersburg Art Center
Gallery Talk, Doris Ulmann Galleries, Berea College, Berea Kentucky
International Center of Photography School, (Harvey Stein’s Class) NYC
Gallery talk with Hudson Guild seniors, NYC
Gallery talk with Hudson Guild children’s groups, NYC
Pictorial Photographers of America, NYC
Gallery Talk, Mongolia exhibit, Rubin Museum of Art, NYC
Guest Photographer artist’s talk, Soho Photo, NYC
Club Artist’s talk, Parkwest Camera Soho Photo, NYC
Mid-Manhattan Library, New York Public Library Artist Lecture Series, NYC
Artist’s talk, Abrons Arts Center, Henry Street Settlement, NYC
PAI, National Arts Club, NYC
NYU Tisch School of the Arts Photography Department ( Editha Mesina’s class)
Labor Arts, Robert Wagner Labor Archives and Tamiment Library, New York
University, SEIU Bldg., NYC
International Center of Photography School, (Harvey Stein’s Class) NYC
TEACHING
12/65-6/2000
7/98
2/88-6/89
2/75-1/88
2/74-1/76
4/69-7/70
NYC Teacher of "at-risk" adolescents: Art, Photography, Creative Writing
Prague School for Photographic Studies-- Social Documentary Workshop
Direct/teach Lower East Side Photography Workshop at the Puerto Rican
Girls Club (GED Program), Jacob Riis Houses, NYC
Director of the Bushwick Youth Photography Workshop, Bushwick,
Brooklyn
Beginning and Advanced Photography, Kingsborough Community
College, CUNY (hired by Larry Fink)
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.
Friendship with Helen Levitt
Friendship with Walter Rosenblum
Friendship with Naomi Rosenblum
Informal printing tutorial with Ralf Steiner
Member, Photographer's Forum, NYC (Chairman, 10/70-10/73, 10/7610/78)
1974-2009
1961-2006
1965 present
1/67
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EDUCATION
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1966
1964
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).
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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