Marc Leverette

Marc Leverette
Born 1978 (age 36–37)
Florida, United States
Nationality American
Occupation Photographer, author, artist
Website
http://marcleverettephotography.com/

Marc Leverette is an award-winning American photographer, author, and multi-media artist.

Biography

Leverette was born in Florida in 1978 and attended Mariner High School, graduating in 1996. He holds an AA from Edison Community College, a BA from Florida Gulf Coast University, a Master of Arts Degree from New York University, and a PhD from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. Until 2008 he worked as a university professor at a number of institutions, including NYU, Rutgers, St. Peter's College, and Colorado State University, whereupon he left the academy entirely.

Writing

According to David Lavery, in his preface to Leverette's first book, Professional Wrestling, the Myth, the Mat, and American popular Culture, he "offers a discerning media ecology of wrestling and limns the future of wrestling scholarship." In the book, Leverette argues that wrestling's peak periods of popularity come during the times which it responds directly to the viewers' socio-economic status and responds to direct cultural and political events happening contemporaneously.

In 2004 his article "Deconstructing Larry, the Last Man" won the Whatley prize for best article published that year in the journal Studies in Popular Culture.[1]

His doctoral thesis, The Middle Place: Mediated and the (Im)Possibility of Center, was written under William Solomon in 2006.[2]

In 2008 he released Zombie Culture: Autopsies of the Living Dead, a collection of essays, edited with Shawn McIntosh, on the phenomena of zombies in popular culture that has been called a "landmark anthology" and "indispensable."[3] 2008 also saw the release of It's Not TV: Watching HBO in the Post-Television Era, another co-edited collection, which represented a "new wave in television studies."[4]

Photography and Graphic Design

Leverette began his photography career in Florida in 1997. In 2006 he opened The Monkey Lab (sometimes rendered stylistically as themonkeylab), serving as its art director and creative consultant.

Art

Much of Leverette's work revolves around identity, specifically his own, claiming he "examines the notion of selfhood and identity within the process of mediation."[5]

A 2009 series, "You Can't Go Home Again" explored the ways our ways of seeing places are tied to very specific memories of those places.[6]

In 2010, in a series titled "Prince, Richard," he rephotographed images of Richard Prince found on the internet, slyly commenting on the role of the artist as art specifically drawing the viewer in to the controversies surrounding Prince.[7]

References

  1. ↑ "PCAS/ACAS Newsletter". James Madison University. Retrieved 20 October 2013.
  2. ↑ "Ph.D. Dissertations Component - School of Communication and Information - Rutgers University". Comminfo.rutgers.edu. Retrieved 2012-02-14.
  3. ↑ Bishop, Kyle William (2010). American Zombie Gothic: The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of the Walking Dead in Popular Culture. McFarland and Company. ISBN 0786448067.
  4. ↑ Leverette, Marc, Brian L. Ott, and Cara Louise Buckley (2008). It's Not TV: Watching HBO in the Post-Television Era. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-96037-3.
  5. ↑ "Statement". Marc Leverette. Retrieved 2012-02-14.
  6. ↑ "You Can't Go Home Again". Marc Leverette. Retrieved 20 October 2013.
  7. ↑ "Prince, Richard". Marc Leverette. Retrieved 20 October 2013.

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