Desert Prada, Texas

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Burk Uzzle
Desert Prada, Texas
2006

About the Item

24 x 30 inch carbon print, framed to 32.5 x 38.25 inches. Edition #8 from a sold-out edition of 10. Burk Uzzle’s "Desert Prada, Texas" has become one of his most iconic images, capturing in the early morning desert light the renowned sculpture by the two German conceptual artists Elmgreen and Dragset. The sculpture, located about 26 miles outside of Marfa, Texas, was intended to look like a real Prada store, with minimalist white stucco walls and a display of Prada shoes and handbags, but there is no working door. Burk Uzzle was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, in 1938. His career received its first major impetus in 1962, when Life magazine hired him as the youngest-ever photographer to work for them. For many years, Uzzle continued to produce work for Life as well as other publications worldwide, including Newsweek, Fortune, Sports Illustrated, and the New York Times Magazine. Some of his most notable work during this time included coverage of the Martin Luther King funeral in 1968 (Newsweek used one of his images as their cover photo that week), and the Woodstock music festival in 2009 (the cover image of the Woodstock vinyl was by Uzzle). But his photographic work went beyond photojournalism. His first book, in 1971, featured his American landscape work. Later in the 70’s, he began experimenting with still-life photography. In 1984, another monograph, All American, was published. Museum shows followed, including solo shows at the Chicago Art Institute in 1971, the Philadelphia Museum in 1984, and the Chrysler Museum in 1992. In 2016, Uzzle’s work will be featured in triple-venue exhibitions in his home state of North Carolina – at the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh, NC; at the Ackland Museum of Art, at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, NC; and at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University in Durham, NC. Burk Uzzle’s work is included in the holdings of many prominent museum and private collections, including the Library of Congress; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris; and in the private Margulies collection in Miami and Bidwell Projects in Ohio.

Creator:
Burk Uzzle (1938, American)
Creation Year:
2006
Dimensions:
Height: 32.5 in (82.55 cm)Width: 38.25 in (97.16 cm)
Medium:
Carbon Pigment
Movement & Style:
Contemporary
Period:
21st Century
Condition:
This work is offered overmatted and framed.
Gallery Location:
New York, NY
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU3022773692