BOOKS

 
AU BORD


FINALIST FOR THE RACINE DU CIEL
ART BOOK PRIZE, 2023


SHORTLIST FOR THE AUTHOR BOOK PRIZE
LES RENCONTRES D'ARLES, 2023

Ninety four decommissioned border crossings photographed in Europe in 1993. Abandoned passport controls and customs houses, vacant cross-border businesses, obsolete signage and road markings, empty spaces.... This work evokes the original optimism and subsequent disappointments of the European project, and posits a nostalgia for our abandoned ideals.

With essay by Luc Baboulet.

 
SOME SIGNS


An artist's book of photographs of business signs, metaphorically sequenced.

5 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches. 40 pages with 34 images. Edition of 100. SOLD OUT

 
CRISTINA'S HISTORY


A multi-generational migration story of a branch of Mikael Levin's family, from Poland through Portugal to Guinea-Bissau.

Three sequence of images (Zgierz, Lisbon, Guinea-Bissau) are presented along with essays by Jean Francois Chevrier, art historian and independent curator, Jonathan Boyarin, professor of modern Jewish studies, and Carlos Schwarz Da Silva, a cousin living in Guinea Bissau, director of the NGO Action for Development.

French, English, and Portuguese.

 
WAR STORY


In 1995 Mikael Levin retraced his father's 1945 journey through war torn Europe, photographing the urban centers, landscapes and concentration camps as they contrasted to those witnessed by his father, Meyer Levin, fifty years previously.

War Story assembles those photographs together with his father's description of that jouney as it appeared in his autobiography In Search.

The book also includes a selection of photographs by French photographer Eric Schwab, who journeyed with Meyer Levin. Those images were rediscoured by Mikael Levin in the course of producing this project.

A German translation of this book appeared under the title Suche (Gina Kehayof Verlag, 1996).

 
SILENT PASSAGE


A sequence of 34 photographs taken in the early 1980's, drifting on a pristine waterway in Sweden.

Intrduction by Andy Grundberg.

PLEASANT IF
SOMEWHAT RUDE VIEWS


An artist's book on the theme of dislocation; places, lives that are out of place. Two sequences of images by Mikael Levin. Two texts by Gabriel Levin.

 
PAYSAGES TERRITOIRES


Twelve landscapes of Ile de France by twleve photographers including Patrick Faigenbaum, Suzanne Lafont, Jean-Louis Schoellkopf, and Mikael Levin.

Text by Jean-Francois Chevrier

 
LES QUATRE SAISONS DU TERRITOIRE


The 101 counties of the Belfort Territory of France documented by 10 photographers over four years, each time during a different season of the year.

Photographers include John Davis, Dominique Auerbacher, Gilbert Fastenaekens and Mikael Levin.

Texts by John Burger, Jean-Claude Lemagny, and Alain Buttard, and others.