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It's jarring to move from the lurid theatricality of "Mein Kampf " to the head-on, propless portraits of Levinthal's "Blackface" series.
Levinthal's mock-doc images have none of the chaotic horror of Vietnam.
In fact, the objects Levinthal has photographed are extremely varied, and the galleries might have helped the viewer out by furnishing details about the items' provenance and use.
But such is the nervous rigidity of our current aesthetic climate, where ambiguity is tolerated on neither the left nor the right, that when a smaller version of Levinthal's series "Blackface" opened in New York, at the Janet Borden Gallery in SoHo, some reviewers followed the institute's lead in thinking that only two questions needed to be posed about these photographs: 1) Are the memorabilia themselves offensive?
Levinthal's title for this series reveals his interest in a tradition of blackface masquerade that, by the turn of the century, was largely a Jewish province (think of Al Jolson's The Jazz Singer ). While Jewish minstrelsy operated on the premise that black people were inherently funny, it also reflected a complex identification of Jews with blacks--an identification between outsider groups explored by such contemporary scholars as Michael Rogin, in Blackface, White Noise , and Eric Lott, in Love and Theft .