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Phillip BuehlerBarber's Chair
$1,600
£1,230.83
€1,428.64
CA$2,256.38
A$2,527.53
CHF 1,327.55
MX$30,733.92
NOK 16,811.10
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About the Item
24"x 30" photograph, edition of 5, signed on reverse
This photograph was taken at Greystone Park Hospital and shows a singular abandoned barber chair isolated in a room full of debris and distressed walls. The aqua pale blue paint is chipping away showing the white and grey paint that was once there. Also visible is a window bringing in natural light that brightly lights the room, as well as an old rusted radiator. The floor has planks of wood and white and grey with fallen paint chips, plaster and debris almost completely disguising the floor underneath.
Phillip Buehler has been photographing abandoned places around the world since he rowed to the (then abandoned) Ellis Island in 1974. Many, like Greystone Park Hospital, have since been demolished; some, like Ellis Island and the High Line, have been restored, and some, like the S.S. United States and the New York State Pavilion, are now in jeopardy. Photographs from the (now demolished) Greystone Park Hospital are featured in this exhibition and in the book “Wardy Forty” which he wrote in 2013 about the last days of Woody Guthrie
- Creator:Phillip Buehler (American)
- Dimensions:Height: 24 in (60.96 cm)Width: 30 in (76.2 cm)
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- Gallery Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU6921011013
Phillip Buehler
The photographer Phillip Buehler has devoted his career to exploring obsolete sites, what he calls “modern ruins.” Captured in states of evocative decay, his subjects have included an abandoned psychiatric asylum, a Cold War missile silo and an offline power plant.
In late 2019, Buehler's body of work on view in the exhibition “Mallrat to Snapchat: The End of the Third Place” — at Front Room Gallery, in New York — may have elicited more nostalgia than the others. It was a look at New Jersey’s defunct Wayne Hills Mall and, by extension, at the dying culture of middle-class suburban shopping centers across the country.
"I started photographing abandoned places the same year the mall opened, 1973, when I was a senior in high school," Buehler told The Study. "At the time, New York was falling apart, with empty piers and abandoned or burned-out buildings everywhere. Back then, nobody was photographing them, so I had no art references — most were cinematic. Two films released in 1968 made a big impression on me: 2001: A Space Odyssey and Planet of the Apes."
Browse a collection of Phillip Buehler's photography on 1stDibs.
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