Worlds in a Box , he has recreated their presence through evocative photographs that stimulate reflection. Throughout his career, Levinthal has photographed toys, objects, or pictures in order to offer a new perspective on history and popular culture. In Small Wonder , curated by Charles Stainback, the line between fact and fiction, or reality and fantasy, blurs. In the 1940s, the Louis Marx Toy Company of New York City introduced these playsets, which contained soft plastic figures, props, and tin environments. Boys had Alamos and gas stations.
Toys exist for a reason.
They allow you to enter a fantasy world. When you're a child with a cap gun, suddenly you're Hopalong Cassidy.