David Levinthal's *Blackface (#1)* confronts the deeply troubling history of racial caricature through his signature use of staged photography and toy figurines, transforming culturally loaded objects into unsettling yet critically charged images. With meticulous lighting and shallow depth of field, Levinthal renders the blackface figure in an eerie, dreamlike quality that blurs the line between childhood artifact and symbol of systemic racism. This signed, dated, and numbered edition of 3/5 underscores the work's status as a deliberate and considered artistic statement within his broader exploration of American mythology and cultural memory.