Phillip Buehler

"Nike Missile Bunker" a limited edition photograph from Hart Island, 2023

2023

30"x40" photograph, signed and editioned on reverse. (edition of 5) Please inquire about framing options. This photograph is from a series entitled, “(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. Photographs from this series will be featured in a solo exhibition this September at the Front Room Gallery. 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...

18"x24" limited edition historic photograph, edition 1/5. This photograph depicts ... Phillip Buehler is a New York based photographer who documents the deterioration and remnants o...

18"x24" limited edition historic photograph, edition 1/5. This photograph depicts a man-made island that served as a quarantine station. It was built in 1872 after the old Quarantine...

18"x24" limited edition historic photograph, edition 1/5. This photograph depicts a burial site where over a million people have been buried since the late 1800s, more recently victi...

Untitled (Nr. 0003) Landscape Photography 36" x 44" Edition of 12 by Ben Cope Unframed - ships rolled in a tube Ben Cope + Rowan Daly Off the Grid Off the Grid is the culminatio...

Cameron Parish, limited edition photograph, archival ink, signed and numbered I have spent seven years photographing visual clues that tell of the beauty, complexity and destructio...

Hailing from the picturesque city of Zaragoza, nestled near the Pyrenees, Carlos Blanchard's journey into the realm of photography was influenced by the rich tapestry of his upbringi...

Printed on Acrylic Jean-Charles Mandou is a French photographer born in 1962 who lives between France & Brazil. He studied at Ecole du Louve in Paris. He works also in theater & cin...