Born in 1949 in San Francisco, USA. Lives and works in New York, USA.

Writing in The New York Times, Charles Hagen said that, “what distinguishes David Levinthal’s work is his interest in emotionally charged historical material. But the real force of his images comes not from his choice of subjects but from the way he tells their stories.” Levinthal is the co-author, with Garry Trudeau, of Hitler Moves East, originally published in 1977. Dark Light, a ten year survey exhibition of his work, was organized in 1994 by The Photographers’ Gallery in London, and traveled throughout the United Kingdom. He has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Levinthal’s works are represented in international collections such as Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA; Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA; Gene Autry Western Heritage Museum, Los Angeles, USA; The Menil Collection, Houston, USA.