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Art Subject: Machinery
Accident during war in Algeria - Historical Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Accident during war in Algeria - Historical Photo is a black and white vintage photograph realized in the 1960s. It belongs to historical album including photo reportages of historic...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
War in Algeria - Accident - Historical Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
War in Algeria - Accident is a black and white vintage photograph realized in the 1960s. It belongs to historical album including photo reportages of historical events and political ...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Riding - Life in Italy - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Riding - Life in Italy 1960 is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the1960s in Italy.
Good conditions an aged.
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Thunderbird, Napa, CA, 2014
By John Dolan
Located in Hudson, NY
John Dolan’s photographs revel in the extraordinary that lies beneath everyday, fleeting occurrences. And in this eloquent collection of twenty images shot in ravishing color and bla...
Category
2010s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
"Wind" Type C Metallic Print
By Jen Zahigian
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Jen's love of photography began as a child, when her grandfather, a photographer, gave her a camera. However, it wasn't until she graduated from UC Berkeley that photography became a driving force in her life. She loves to photograph America's worn-out, offbeat, and forgotten corners.
Working with color Jen takes ordinary scenes just a bit beyond our everyday view. Many of her photographs depict California highway establishments and signage, revealing an appreciation for their dated aesthetic and patina of rust and neglect.
"Wind" Edition of 50 Type C...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
C Print
Airplane, Side Propeller
By Bill Phelps
Located in Hudson, NY
This is a photograph of a Swiss made Pilatus PC-12 airplane. There are other images in this series as well.
A self-taught photographer, Phelps has won numerous awards for his photog...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Pigment
And The Soul Wanted To Move
Located in Hudson, NY
CURRENT EXHIBITION - runs through February 26th, 2017. Any framed photographs purchased during the show will be available then. If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Photograph of a Painting by Beppe Guzzi - mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Photograph of a Painting by Beppe Guzzi is a black and white vintage photo realized by an anonymous artist in the mid-20th Century.
Good conditions except for some minor fixings.
T...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Shelter Fabric - Vintage Photograph - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Shelter Fabric - American Vintage Photograph is an original black and white photograph realized in the U.S in the Mid-20th Century in a series of American life in the 20th Century.
...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
American Coal Field - American Vintage Photograph - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
American Coal Field- American Vintage Photograph is an original black and white photograph realized in the U.S in the Mid-20th Century in a series on American life in the 20th Centur...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
A New Method in Building - Vintage Photograph - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
A New Method in Building- American Vintage Photograph is an original black and white photograph realized in the U.S in the Mid-20th Century in a series on American life in the 20th C...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Salt Production - American Vintage Photograph - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Salt Production- American Vintage Photograph is an original black and white photograph realized in the U.S in the mid-20th Century in a series of American life in the 20th Century.
...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Milk Distribution - American Vintage Photograph - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Milk Distribution - American Vintage Photograph is an original black and white photograph realized in the U.S in the mid-20th Century in a series of American life in the 20th Century...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Vending Machine - American Vintage Photograph - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Vending Machin - American Vintage Photograph is an original black and white photograph realized in the U.S in the mid-20th Century in a series of American life in the 20th Century.
...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Porto Ricans to Full Self-Government- Vintage Photograph - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Porto Ricans to Full Local Self-Government- Vintage Photograph is an original black and white photograph realized in the U.S in the mid-20th Century in a series of American life in t...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Milk Distribution - American Vintage Photograph - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Milk Distribution - American Vintage Photograph is an original black and white photograph realized in the U.S in the mid-20th Century in a series of American life in the 20th Century...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Vintage Photograph of a Painting by Beppe Guzzi - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Photograph of a Painting by Beppe Guzzi is a black and white vintage photo realized by an anonymous artist in the mid-20th Century.
Good conditions except for some minor fixings.
T...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Final Winding on the Reel of the Optical Fiber - Vintage B/W photo - 1990s
Located in Roma, IT
Final winding on the reel of the optical fiber is an original photograph realized by an Anonymous photographer.
Typed notes on the rear, the descriptio...
Category
1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Landscape Photography Square Series: "Car #2"
Located in New York, NY
In expressing his narrative of “The Western Abandon” Cody concentrates his focus on abandoned farms, crumbling homes, neglected churches, aging cemeteries, forgotten cars and other o...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Black and White, ...
Buick
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing.
Edition of 5.
CURRENT EXHIBITION - runs through September 11th, 2016. Any framed photographs purchased during the sho...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Jorf Lasfar, Morocco
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing.
Edition of 7.
If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is produced ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
"Cummins Steam Pump", 2007
By Ian Gittler
Located in Hudson, NY
Ian Gittler’s Motor Art series-photographs of century-old engine parts, gears, sparkplugs, and brand tags-offers respite from the digital fetishism, overexposure and one-hundred-forty-character bursts of communication that seem to define our era. Gittler is no luddite, he loves his iPhone. But these images, often obscuring the objects beyond identification, take unsentimental pleasure in elements of weight, ground, volume and permanence that are more closely associated with a bygone heyday of industrialization.
These photographs are about a tangible physical experience, about moving parts. Gittler’s expert printing-his ability to see the potential in a frame and employ the techniques necessary to articulate that vision on paper-brings the work to life.
There’s wit in the brand iconography and a documentary component, but Gittler resists prescribing interpretations, saying subtext isn’t the point. His use of extremely shallow depth of field, intense contrast and exploded grain is muscular and poetic. But subtext is relevant.
Although Robin Rice first approached Ian Gittler about his vector-based art on photo paper, the gallerist challenged him to create a series of photographs with that kind of machismo. As a native New Yorker who was marched through the halls of MOMA as a toddler, Gittler’s inspiration-his idea of macho-has less to do with cowboys and racecar drivers than with Franz Kline brushstrokes and modernist design. For Gittler, macho means the maximum amount of black ink that can lie across a sheet of photo paper. That kind of force. He narrowed his field of view for this series-often to a centimeter or two-in order to achieve a purely visual, visceral response.
Gittler titled the work Motor Art in tribute to the 1934 Museum of Modern Art exhibit, Machine Art. Upon its sixtieth anniversary, Phillip Johnson wrote of the show (and of his own essay for its original opening), “The thrust was clear: anti-handicraft, industrial methods alone satisfied our age; Platonic dreams of perfection were the ideal.”
Ian Gittler photographs, draws, writes, and makes music. He has created album covers for Willie Nelson, Roy Hargrove...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Pigment
Avro Lancaster Bomber arming D-Day +1 original 1944 photograph undercarriage
Located in London, GB
To see our other original vintage warbird aeroplane posters, photographs and paintings, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "...
Category
1940s Realist Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Avro Lancaster Bomber LL683 original 1943 photograph Hercules Power Egg MkII
Located in London, GB
To see our other original vintage warbird aeroplane posters, photographs and paintings, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "...
Category
1940s Realist Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Untitled (Monster Truck)
By Joshua Lutz
Located in New York, NY
Digital C-print (Edition of 10)
Signed, dated, and numbered, verso
30 x 35.5 inches, sheet
22 x 27 inches, image
This photograph is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Please note that prices increase as editions sell.
Joshua Lutz is an American artist working with large-format photography and video. Lutz began photographing the Meadowlands ten years ago as a a documentary study of the 32-square-miles of marshy wilderness that sits between New Jersey and New York (while ostensibly searching for the remains of Jimmy Hoffa...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
C Print
My 1000 cc Airhead (1995 BMW R100R) (Black)
By James Lahey
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Ed. of 12
Sales can affect the inventory and the shipping time for works. Please contact the seller to confirm availability of works.
James Lahey is a Canadian artist living in Toro...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Canvas, Pigment
My 1966 R60 (Slash 2) (Black)
By James Lahey
Located in Montreal, Quebec
James Lahey is a Canadian artist living in Toronto, ON where he maintains his studio. He completed his BFA at York University in 1984 with studies in Art and Architecture in Italy (1...
Category
2010s Black and White Photography
Materials
Canvas, C Print
"Scale", industrial, black and white, abandoned, silk mill, vintage, photograph
Located in Natick, MA
Rebecca Skinner’s “Scale” was photographed at an abandoned silk mill and is part of a series documenting the loss of industry in America. The 18 x 12 inch black and white photo with ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Metal
"Wheels", black and white, abandoned, silk mill, industrial, vintage, photograph
Located in Natick, MA
Rebecca Skinner’s “Wheels” was photographed at an abandoned silk mill and is part of a series documenting the loss of industry in America. The 12 x 18 black and white photo with sati...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Metal
"Thread", contemporary, black, white, abandoned, industrial, vintage, photograph
Located in Natick, MA
Rebecca Skinner’s “Thread” was photographed at an abandoned silk mill and is part of a series documenting the loss of industry in America. The 18 x 12 inch black and white photo with...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Metal
Landscape Photography Square Series: 'Gas Pumps'
Located in New York, NY
In expressing his narrative of “The Western Abandon” Cody concentrates his focus on abandoned farms, crumbling homes, neglected churches, aging cemeteries, forgotten cars and other o...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
White Corvette at Gas Station, Night, Circa 1960
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Corvette at Gas Station at Night -- A circa 1960s Corvette was photographed for an advertising campaign. THE 24” x 36” SIZE OF THIS IMAGE IS ONLY OFFERED IN AN EDITION OF 15. Image s...
Category
1960s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Giclée
Glowing Gas Station
Located in Miami, FL
A solitary figure pumps gas under an unearthly shroud of alien-like l ight. Signed , dated lower right, Edition 2 /15 Printed later, unframed, other size available, Printed on Hahne...
Category
1970s Color-Field Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
"Rake, Perry County, AL" - Southern Documentary Photography - Christenberry
By Jerry Siegel
Located in Atlanta, GA
This photograph is unframed.
Jerry Siegel is inspired by the work of William Christenberry, Sally Mann, Andrew Moore, Walker Evans and Jim Dow.
Photographer Jerry Siegel was born an...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Inkjet
'Giants of the Hills' - Black and White Photography - Landscape - Walker Evans
By Chris Little
Located in Atlanta, GA
'Giants of the Hills' is a black and white landscape photograph rolling hills and wind turbines. This print is edition 1 of 20. This listing is for an unframed print - a framed print is also available.
Chris Little is inspired by the work of Ernest Hass, Jay Maisel...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
"Venus, Perry County, AL" - Southern Documentary Photography - Christenberry
By Jerry Siegel
Located in Atlanta, GA
Photographer Jerry Siegel was born and raised in Selma, Alabama and graduated from the Art Institute of Atlanta. His first monograph, “Facing South: Portraits of Southern Artists,” w...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Inkjet
"The Kick" New York Subway Reefing Photograph
Located in New York, NY
C-Print Photograph, signed on reverse by the artist, Stephen Mallon. 20"x30"
This photograph captures an unbelievable sight as a New York Subway Train car is being dropped in the Oc...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
C Print
No Grille
Located in Westwood, NJ
Richard Kagan, born in Philadelphia, followed a circuitous path to become a photographer. Beginning with street photography using a meterless Asahi Pentax as a student at Temple Univ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Games Before iPhone #1
By Paul Sokal
Located in Denton, TX
From series "Before iPhone"
Edition 1/10
Signed, titled and dated by artist in print verso in pen
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Herd, contemporary documentary photography, herd of cows and wind farm
Located in New York, NY
Maria Passarotti graduated in 2000 with a BFA from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York. Her most recent photographs are inspired by the intersection o...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
C Print, Color
John Surtees / Sebring, Ferrari 330P #21
Located in Denton, TX
Edition of 25
Signed, titled, dated, print date, and numbered.
Paper size: 11 x 14 in.
AVAILABLE SIZES:
11 x 14 in., Edition of 25
16 x 20 in., Edition of 25
24 x 36 in., Edition of...
Category
1960s Post-Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
untitled
Located in New York, NY
Untitled gelatin silver print from the artist's early street photography. Signed and numbered (2 from an edition of 6) verso.
Category
Early 2000s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Black and White, Silver Gelatin
B-52 Cockpit
Located in New York, NY
40"40" photograph, edition of 5, signed and editioned on reverse
framed in natural wood shadowbox frame
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Stony Brook Grist Mill, Stony Brook, LI : contemporary photography
Located in New York, NY
A wonderful contemporary artwork by a noted Long Island photographer Holly Gordon.
For more than two decades Gordon has pushed through the traditional boundaries of photography. She is one of the pioneers of “photo-liminalism,” a process of achieving painterly quality in photography by overlapping, layering, and manipulating. As painters paint with a brush, Gordon’s brush is the lens of the camera and her computer. The digital world that Gordon works with provides endless opportunities. The evolution of images in her practice is limitless and bountiful.
Another highlight of Gordon’s recent career is her collaboration with Ward Hooper, a noted illustrator and painter from Long Island. The result of this collaboration is a book called “Parallel Perspectives : The Brush/ Lens Collaboration,” with a forward by Peter Pitzele, Ph.D., a teacher and author, and a preface by Denise A. Bibro, Director of Denise Bibro Fine Art, NYC. This collaboration continues a long tradition of Long Island coupled artists creating and experiencing art using Long Island as an incubator for creativity. One particular Long Island partnership that inspired Holly and Ward was of renowned twentieth century artist, Arthur Dove, and his wife, painter Hellen Torr. Other couples of artists connected to Long Island such as Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock and Elaine and Willem de Kooning were also inspirational for the two. These pairings were a testament of the richness of place and history of Long Island that should always be remembered and celebrated.
Holly Gordon’s work has been exhibited widely in such institutions as Denise Bibro Fine Art, NYC, American Museum of Natural History, NYC, New York Hall of Science, NYC, The Heckscher Museum of Art, NY, Southampton Arts Center, NY, The Long Island Museum, NY, Islip Art Museum, NY, to name a few. Her photographs are a part of various collections including Molloy University, Rockville Centre, NY, NYU Langone Health, NYC, and Stony Brook...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Ink
Greenwich, Utah
Located in New York, NY
20 x 25 inch archival pigment print, edition 15.
Signed, titled, dated and editioned on frame label provided.
Larger sizes available as part of this edition - please inquire.
All prints MADE TO ORDER - allow additional time.
Luca Campigotto uses big equipment to capture big subjects, from the absolute vibrant density of 5POINTZ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Jorf Lasfar, Morocco 2012
Located in Hudson, NY
Price includes framing.
Robin Rice Gallery from New York and Bridgehampton comes to Beacon, NY. This year, as part of the Beacon Open Studios 10th Anniversary event, Robin Rice Gallery is proud to present a group show of gallery artists curated especially for the new gallery space, Gallery II at 82 Mason Circle at the Lofts at Beacon.
The gallery at the Beacon Lofts is located on the 12-acre property of a 19th century textile mill, just along the banks of Fishkill Creek. Drawing on the industrial design of the live/work lofts themselves, the space makes use of reclaimed brick...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Gear Pile
Located in New York, NY
C Print Photograph, signed on reverse
available as 30"x45" edition of 5, framed and mounted in high quality shadow box frame with natural wood finish.
This is from Stephe...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print
Untitled #8
By Bill Phelps
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing.
Edition of 15.
If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is prod...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
6000 Ton Lift
Located in New York, NY
30'X45" photograph, edition of 5, unframed
This photograph is from Stephen Mallon's series: "Prelude" - an examination of the “Prelude F.L.N.G.,”* the “largest offshore floating f...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
C Print, Photographic Paper
Jorf Lasfar, Morocco
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing.
Edition of 7.
If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is produ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Typewriter
Located in New York, NY
24"x30" edition of 5 photograph
available unframed
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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Prelude
Located in New York, NY
photograph, edition of 5, unframed
This photograph is from Stephen Mallon's series: "Prelude" - an examination of the “Prelude F.L.N.G.,”* the “largest ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
C Print, Photographic Paper
Ordos City, Inner Mongolia, China
Located in Hudson, NY
Black and White, Urban, City, China, Cityscape, mongolia, china, smoke, landscape, still life, black & white, b&w, high contrast, vignette, noir, urban photography, asia
Listing is ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
"Oil Distribution Manifold", 2007
By Ian Gittler
Located in Hudson, NY
Ian Gittler’s Motor Art series-photographs of century-old engine parts, gears, sparkplugs, and brand tags-offers respite from the digital fetishism, overexp...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Pigment
"Solex Carburetor 1928", 2007
By Ian Gittler
Located in Hudson, NY
Ian Gittler’s Motor Art series-photographs of century-old engine parts, gears, sparkplugs, and brand tags-offers respite from the digital fetishism, overexposure and one-hundred-forty-character bursts of communication that seem to define our era. Gittler is no luddite, he loves his iPhone. But these images, often obscuring the objects beyond identification, take unsentimental pleasure in elements of weight, ground, volume and permanence that are more closely associated with a bygone heyday of industrialization.
These photographs are about a tangible physical experience, about moving parts. Gittler’s expert printing-his ability to see the potential in a frame and employ the techniques necessary to articulate that vision on paper-brings the work to life. There’s wit in the brand iconography and a documentary component, but Gittler resists prescribing interpretations, saying subtext isn’t the point. His use of extremely shallow depth of field, intense contrast and exploded grain is muscular and poetic. But subtext is relevant.
Although Robin Rice first approached Ian Gittler about his vector-based art on photo paper, the gallerist challenged him to create a series of photographs with that kind of machismo. As a native New Yorker who was marched through the halls of MOMA as a toddler, Gittler’s inspiration-his idea of macho-has less to do with cowboys and racecar drivers than with Franz Kline brushstrokes and modernist design. For Gittler, macho means the maximum amount of black ink that can lie across a sheet of photo paper. That kind of force. He narrowed his field of view for this series-often to a centimeter or two-in order to achieve a purely visual, visceral response.
Gittler titled the work Motor Art in tribute to the 1934 Museum of Modern Art exhibit, Machine Art. Upon its sixtieth anniversary, Phillip Johnson wrote of the show (and of his own essay for its original opening), “The thrust was clear: anti-handicraft, industrial methods alone satisfied our age; Platonic dreams of perfection were the ideal.”
Ian Gittler photographs, draws, writes, and makes music. He has created album covers for Willie Nelson, Roy Hargrove...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Pigment
"Trip Hammer", 2010
By Ian Gittler
Located in Hudson, NY
Ian Gittler’s Motor Art series-photographs of century-old engine parts, gears, sparkplugs, and brand tags-offers respite from the digital fetishism, overexposure and one-hundred-forty-character bursts of communication that seem to define our era. Gittler is no luddite, he loves his iPhone. But these images, often obscuring the objects beyond identification, take unsentimental pleasure in elements of weight, ground, volume and permanence that are more closely associated with a bygone heyday of industrialization.
These photographs are about a tangible physical experience, about moving parts. Gittler’s expert printing-his ability to see the potential in a frame and employ the techniques necessary to articulate that vision on paper-brings the work to life. There’s wit in the brand iconography and a documentary component, but Gittler resists prescribing interpretations, saying subtext isn’t the point. His use of extremely shallow depth of field, intense contrast and exploded grain is muscular and poetic. But subtext is relevant.
Although Robin Rice first approached Ian Gittler about his vector-based art on photo paper, the gallerist challenged him to create a series of photographs with that kind of machismo. As a native New Yorker who was marched through the halls of MOMA as a toddler, Gittler’s inspiration-his idea of macho-has less to do with cowboys and racecar drivers than with Franz Kline brushstrokes and modernist design. For Gittler, macho means the maximum amount of black ink that can lie across a sheet of photo paper. That kind of force. He narrowed his field of view for this series-often to a centimeter or two-in order to achieve a purely visual, visceral response.
Gittler titled the work Motor Art in tribute to the 1934 Museum of Modern Art exhibit, Machine Art. Upon its sixtieth anniversary, Phillip Johnson wrote of the show (and of his own essay for its original opening), “The thrust was clear: anti-handicraft, industrial methods alone satisfied our age; Platonic dreams of perfection were the ideal.”
Ian Gittler photographs, draws, writes, and makes music. He has created album covers for Willie Nelson, Roy Hargrove...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Pigment
Red Porsche
Located in Miami, FL
Mitchell extracts color from a seemingly boring landscape. Eye-popping saturated primary colors, and an unexpected camera angle defines his visual style and springboards him into a c...
Category
1970s Color-Field Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Film
A Daily Life in Tokyo 8 – John Yuyi, Fashion, Millenial, Photography, Art
Located in Zurich, CH
JOHN Yuyi (*1991, Taiwan)
A Daily Life in Tokyo 6, 2019
Archival Pigment Print
Sheet 90 x 60 cm (36 x 24 in.)
Edition of 6, plus 2 AP; Ed. no. 1/6
John Yuyi (*1991, Taiwan) is known...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
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Photographer to Know: Jeannette Montgomery Barron
Her stunning portraits of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Andy Warhol and other artists chronicle a crucial chapter of New York’s cultural history.