After completing his studies in 1970, Lebe returned to PCA as an instructor in 1972. He would continue teaching at PCA (which became University of the Arts in 1985) until 1990. “An experimentalist less interested in capturing the real than in freeing his images from the constraints of reality,”Jameson Fitzpatrick, “The Body Made Light,” Art in America, April 22, 2019, https://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-features/magazines/david-lebe/ he has produced multiple bodies of work that explore an array of subjects, often utilizing fundamental, relatively low-tech photographic techniques in innovative ways. Curator Tom Beck notes that “autobiography is the key to [Lebe’s] work, which has shifted from time to time among photograms, light drawings, and male nudes.”Tom Beck, Truth Fantasy: David Lebe Photographs (1986), cited in Leifheit, “Let Us Now Praise David Lebe.”
