Bill Phelps

Triking, Linas, France, 1999

1999

This is a photograph of a Swiss made Pilatus PC-12 airplane. There are other images in this series as well. A self-taught photographer, Phelps has won numerous awards for his photog...

This is a photograph of a Swiss made Pilatus PC-12 airplane. There are other images in this series as well. A self-taught photographer, Phelps has won numerous awards for his photog...

This is a photograph of a Swiss made Pilatus PC-12 airplane. There are other Airplane images in this series as well. The plane is made by Pilatus Aircraft of Stans, Switzerland, sinc...

This is a photograph of a Swiss made Pilatus PC-12 airplane. There are other images in this series as well. A self-taught photographer, Phelps has won numerous awards for his photog...

This is a photograph of a Swiss made Pilatus PC-12 airplane. There are other images in this series as well. A self-taught photographer, Phelps has won numerous awards for his photog...

Ian Gittler’s Motor Art series-photographs of century-old engine parts, gears, sparkplugs, and brand tags-offers respite from the digital fetishism, overexposure and one-hundred-forty-character bursts of communication that seem to define our era. Gittler is no luddite, he loves his iPhone. But these images, often obscuring the objects beyond identification, take unsentimental pleasure in elements of weight, ground, volume and permanence that are more closely associated with a bygone heyday of industrialization. These photographs are about a tangible physical experience, about moving parts. Gittler’s expert printing-his ability to see the potential in a frame and employ the techniques necessary to articulate that vision on paper-brings the work to life. There’s wit in the brand iconography and a documentary component, but Gittler resists prescribing interpretations, saying subtext isn’t the point. His use of extremely shallow depth of field, intense contrast and exploded grain is muscular and poetic. But subtext is relevant. Although Robin Rice first approached Ian Gittler about his vector-based art on photo paper, the gallerist challenged him to create a series of photographs with that kind of machismo. As a native New Yorker who was marched through the halls of MOMA as a toddler, Gittler’s inspiration-his idea of macho-has less to do with cowboys and racecar drivers than with Franz Kline brushstrokes and modernist design. For Gittler, macho means the maximum amount of black ink that can lie across a sheet of photo paper. That kind of force. He narrowed his field of view for this series-often to a centimeter or two-in order to achieve a purely visual, visceral response. Gittler titled the work Motor Art in tribute to the 1934 Museum of Modern Art exhibit, Machine Art. Upon its sixtieth anniversary, Phillip Johnson wrote of the show (and of his own essay for its original opening), “The thrust was clear: anti-handicraft, industrial methods alone satisfied our age; Platonic dreams of perfection were the ideal.” Ian Gittler photographs, draws, writes, and makes music. He has created album covers for Willie Nelson, Roy Hargrove...

Still Life scanograph photograph of a torn letter "Diane Arbus", 2005 Ripped typed letter from Diane Arbus to Lawrence Shainberg Archival Pigment Print on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag Matte ...

Untitled- Flower 147 (White) by Chad Kleitsch Contemporary still life photograph of dandelion parachutes Archival pigment print on Hahnemuhle photo rag matte paper 40 x 30 inch (40 x...

Archival pigment print Hand printed by Sarah Hadley on Canson Baryta Photo paper From the series Story Lines Sarah Hadley is a Los Angeles based artist whose narrative work focuses on issues of female identity and memory. Hadley's photographs have been exhibited at the Milan Photo...

Archival pigment print Hand printed by Sarah Hadley on Canson Baryta Photo paper From the series The Whispering Dark Sarah Hadley is a Los Angeles based artist whose narrative work focuses on issues of female identity and memory. Hadley's photographs have been exhibited at the Milan Photo...

Gerald Berghammer - Limited edition of 9. Archival fine art pigment print. Signed, titled, dated and numbered by artist. Certificate of authenticity included. Printed with 4cm white ...

Black and white fine art cityscape - landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 9. All Gerald Berghammer prints are made to order in limited ed...