{"id":125,"date":"2010-01-18T20:16:37","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T01:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldrit.com\/?p=125"},"modified":"2010-07-20T21:12:16","modified_gmt":"2010-07-21T01:12:16","slug":"david-j-leveille","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oldrit.com\/?p=125","title":{"rendered":"David J. Leveille"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David was colorful.\u00a0 He was kind.\u00a0 He was inventive.\u00a0 He enjoyed the humor in everything that was around him.\u00a0 He grew up in Pawtucket, RI, a place that he, (and everyone I&#8217;ve encountered from there), pronounced with a truly unique local accent, spitting the word <strong><em>Pawtucket.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_141\" style=\"width: 447px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-141\" class=\"size-full wp-image-141\" title=\"David01\" src=\"https:\/\/oldrit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/David01.jpg\" alt=\"David01\" width=\"437\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oldrit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/David01.jpg 504w, https:\/\/oldrit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/David01-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 437px) 100vw, 437px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-141\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph courtesy of Gene Tortora<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>He drank tea.\u00a0 He rescued cats.\u00a0 His right index finger was curled like he was forever pulling a trigger, making every gesture from pointing, to smoking, to dunking a tea bag, truly his own.\u00a0 It also meant that he operated a camera using his middle finger.\u00a0 His forever crippled finger, his grin and his camera clicking, meant Dave was back.<\/p>\n<p>He was fascinated by the gritty, industrial, working class nature of downtown Rochester.\u00a0 He photographed its streets and its people while a photo student at RIT, and chose to spend his remaining 40 years there.\u00a0 Immediately out of RIT he had loyal clients.\u00a0 He bought an industrial building and created North Light Studio.<\/p>\n<p><strong>He loved and was loved.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_146\" style=\"width: 463px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-146\" class=\"size-large wp-image-146\" title=\"David02\" src=\"https:\/\/oldrit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/David02-713x1024.jpg\" alt=\"David02\" width=\"453\" height=\"642\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-146\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph courtesy of Gene Tortora<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Old RIT was created by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thirdactfilms.com\">Third Act Films<\/a>, who produce <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thirdactfilms.com\">video biography<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thirdactfilms.com\/whatwedo.html\">commissioned documentary<\/a> productions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thirdactfilms.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-34 aligncenter\" title=\"logo\" src=\"http:\/\/filmstorytellers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"69\" height=\"69\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David was colorful.\u00a0 He was kind.\u00a0 He was inventive.\u00a0 He enjoyed the humor in everything that was around him.\u00a0 He grew up in Pawtucket, RI, a place that he, (and everyone I&#8217;ve encountered from there), pronounced with a truly unique &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oldrit.com\/?p=125\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldrit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldrit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldrit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldrit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldrit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/oldrit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181,"href":"https:\/\/oldrit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions\/181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldrit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldrit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldrit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}