Esther Levine (born 1970 in
Frankfurt am Main
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) is a German born,
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based photographer. After studying photography at the
City College of New York
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from 1994 to 1996 she enrolled in the documentary photography program at the
International Center of Photography
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in New York City in 1996. Levine, a
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** Leica Biosystems GmbH, a cancer diagnostics company
** Leica Camera AG, a German camera and optics manufacturer
** Leica Geosystems AG, a Swiss manufacturer of surveying and ...
photographer, has had exhibits in New York, Berlin, Buenos Aires, Switzerland, Guangzhou and Mannheim, shot ad campaigns and had her work published in a variety of European magazines.
Her urban photo project has covered New York City (1997–), Berlin (1999–), Warschau (2003–) and Guangzhou (2005–).
Bibliography
* ''Berlin - the Urban Photo Project'' Edition J. H. Heckenhauer, 2006, .
Exhibitions
*“New York” @ Leica Galerie, Frankfurt, 2006
*Urban Photo Project, “Berlin” and “New York”@ Galerie Gordon & Pym, Paris, 2005
*Urban Photo Project, “New York” @ Galerie J. J. Heckenhauer, Berlin, 2005
*"Witness to a Century" @ Leica Gallery, New York, USA 2005
*Urban Photo Project, “New York” @ Fototage Mannheim Ludwigshafen, 2005
*"German Photography" @ Leica Gallery, New York, USA, 2005
*"Global Cities" @ Canton, China, curated by Alain Julien, 2005
*Urban Photo Project, “Berlin” @ Galerie J. J. Heckenhauer, Berlin, 2004
*Festival de la Luz @ Buenos Aires, 2004
*“Auf nach Europa”, in cooperation with Leica Deutschland, the FAZ und the French cultural institute in Frankfurt 2004
*“Berlin” @ Half King, New York, USA 2004
*"Berlin" @ Go Fish Gallery, New York, USA 2003
*"New York Portrait" @ Paprika, New York, USA 2002
*"Address" - Group Exhibit @ Paris, 2002
*"Paris/Berlin" with
Dolorès Marat
Dolorès Marat (born 1944) is a French photographer.
Life and work
Marat first worked as a seamstress, then as an apprentice to a local photographer, a laboratory assistant, a salesperson in a camera shop, a photographers' printer, a lab assista ...
, Toit du Monde @ Vevey, 2001
*Slideshow @ Voies Off - Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie @ Arles, 2001
*Feature in Photo District News's 30 under 30 issue. 2001
*Leica Gallery @ Photo Expo, New York, USA 2000
*Slideshow @ Voies Off - Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles, 2000
*Yearly Final Exhibit @ International Center of Photography, New York, USA 1997
See also
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List of photographers
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Africa
Algeria
* Zohra Bensemra (born 1968)
* Sabrina Draoui (born 1977)
* Hocine Zaourar (born 1952)
Benin
* Joseph Agbodjelou (1912–1999)
* Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou (born 1965)
* Mayeul ...
External links
Levine's website
1970 births
Living people
German emigrants to the United States
American photographers
Photographers from Frankfurt
American women photographers
German women photographers
21st-century American women
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