Phillip Buehler

Fallout Shelter, archival dye-sub print on aluminum

2017

60"x40" limited edition of 10 photograph, #2/10 signed and editioned on reverse by the artist. This photograph was taken at the site of Brooklyn's famous, historic Domino Sugar Ref...

30"x30" archival pigment print photograph, ed. 5 signed and editioned on reverse by the New York artist, Phillip Buehler This photograph is from “(UN)THINKABLE,” the culmination of 25 years of Phillip Buehler’s work photographing remnants of the Cold War throughout the United States and Europe. Buehler has visited NATO airbases, Cape Canaveral, the Airplane Graveyard, missile bunkers and silos (even within New York City’s borders) among many other sites that are historic, and yet hidden, forbidden, and forgotten. Following the Soviet Union’s detonation of its first thermonuclear bomb in 1953, the United States began actively developing an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). The Titan II Missile program was a Cold War weapons system featuring fifty-four launch complexes in three states. For anyone growing up during the Cold War the sense of dread of the world’s annihilation was all to concrete. It was evidenced in films like “Dr. Strangelove” and “The Day After.” Everyone knew the U.S. had enough nuclear weapons to destroy the world 5 times over, and assumed something similar about the Russians. For those not old enough to remember this built in fear, don’t worry (worry) it is reawakening. We don’t need another Cuban Missile Crisis to push us to the brink, the renewed tension with the Russians, and now North Korea’s recent entry in the nuclear weapons club is more than enough to unnerve anyone who is watching these conflicts unfold. Phillip Buehler is watching closely. Through this comprehensive series Buehler’s photos show many aspects of this non-war war. In Buehler’s aerial photographs from a military airplane storage yard in Arizona the repetition of the same model of bomber aircraft are so abstractly pattern-based that the overall effect beginnings to feel like a Middle Eastern tapestry...

Michael Knigin, American (1942 - 2011) - Effect Unknown, Year: 2004, Medium: Chromogenic Print on Canvas mounted to board, signed, titled, numbered and dated on verso, and signed a...

Wallscape III by Frank Schott 30 x 40 inches (76 x 102cm) edition of 25 signed 48 x 64 inches (122 x 163cm) edition of 7 signed archival fine art pigment print printed under artis...