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Phillip Buehler"Thunderbolt and Parachute Jump" a limited edition from Coney Island, 19971997
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18"x24" limited edition historic photograph, edition 1/5. This photograph depicts a roller coaster that was built in 1925, abandoned in 1980, and demolished in 2000. Behind is the Parachute Jump, an attraction that was originally at the 1939 New York World’s Fair and later moved to Steeplechase Park. It ceased operations in the 1960s and was eventually named an historic landmark and restored in the 2000s.
Phillip Buehler is a New York based photographer who documents the deterioration and remnants of neglected architecture constructed in the recent past. In the series “No Man is an Island...” Buehler has photographed the historic, and also often forgotten islands, around New York City. Some of them, like Ellis Island, loom large in their impact on history, culture and existence in the national identity. Others, like “Rat Island,” a privately-owned 2.5 acre islet north of The Bronx, with an unusual statue of William Tell (and nothing much more), are known about by virtu- ally no one.
Buehler received his BA at Rutgers University and his MFA in photography at School of Visual Arts. Phillip Buehler has been featured in Art in America, The New York Times, Art News, The Art Newspaper, Wall Street Journal, American Photo Magazine, The Huffington Post, Hyperallergic, Gothamist, The Guardian, The Sun, ABC, CNN, and numerous other publications.
- Creator:Phillip Buehler (American)
- Creation Year:1997
- Dimensions:Height: 18 in (45.72 cm)Width: 24 in (60.96 cm)
- More Editions & Sizes:18 x 24" Price: $1,850
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- Gallery Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU69214853422
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."
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