Skip to main content
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 5

Thomas Michael Alleman
Lower Manhattan

2008

$1,750
£1,322.42
€1,527.07
CA$2,445.36
A$2,713.33
CHF 1,421.30
MX$33,272.76
NOK 18,078.48
SEK 17,065.31
DKK 11,388.30
Shipping
Retrieving quote...
The 1stDibs Promise:
Authenticity Guarantee,
Money-Back Guarantee,
24-Hour Cancellation

About the Item

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 produced upon purchase. Please allow two weeks for production. Shipping time depends on method of shipping. Price is subject to availability. The Robin Rice Gallery reserves the right to adjust this price depending on the current edition of the photograph. ABOUT: Since the inception of Sunshine & Noir in 2001, Alleman has shot extensively in Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco and other American cities. In his latest iteration Alleman takes a detour beyond the frenetic landscapes of urban America into Paris - playfully guiding the viewer through a simultaneously familiar and foreign geography. In the exhibition, square and panoramic landscapes and iconic landmarks stretch across the gallery, where Alleman creates intrigue by re-expressing instantly recognizable subjects. Images with blurred, vignetted edges epitomize his surrealist style, haunting throughout the series. His artful mastery at capturing movement is seen in the invitational image, San Fernando Valley, LA, where a van is swallowed by a mass of twisted bicycles. The blurred clouds above give the illusion that the broken down vehicle is actually racing down the highway. This interesting paradox of a decrepit van seemingly in lively motion reflects Alleman’s trademark style - quirky, humorous, and often nostalgic. His love for the ironic and misplaced becomes further evident in the panoramic California Theater Marquee, LA. Once grandiose, the hotel marquee takes on an eerie, carnival-like quality when shot dilapidated and discarded in a storage yard near the Hollywood Hills. To make his panoramas, Alleman exploits, “the very primitive technology” of his camera. The Holga, a medium-format plastic camera dating from 1982 allows him to “make terrible mistakes” on purpose. He intentionally “under cranks” the film-advance, such that several consecutive pictures bump into and overlap one another, causing the images to bleed and fade together to form an apparent panorama. Despite “laughable failures” as “focus, exposure and parallax are uncontrollable,” Alleman’s deliberate camera choice achieves a dancing dynamic between lightness and darkness characterizing Sunshine and Noir. “The shutter sometimes bounces, causing partial double-exposures; light-leaks are inevitable, but random. Much to my surprise, however, the freaky results of that technical dysfunction resembled precisely the pictures I’d been dreaming of…” Alleman says. An acclaimed lifelong photographer, Alleman’s career and technique travelled full circle, but by no simple trajectory. As a photojournalist when clarity and detail were paramount, he mastered Nikons and the highly technical Hasselblad. Opting for messier execution and rudimentary unruliness, Alleman discovers a somewhat hard-edged sentimentality in the show. A Michigan State University English Literature graduate with no formal photography training, Alleman credits the influence of Henri Cartier-Bresson, Lee Friedlander and Garry Winogrand. As a magazine freelancer, Alleman’s photos have been published regularly in Time, People, Business Week, Smithsonian, and the National Geographic Traveler. Most notably, Alleman was named California Newspaper’s Photographer of the Year in 1995 and Los Angeles Newspaper’s Photographer of the Year in 1996. Nonetheless, the award he is most proud of came in 2011 from Photography Book Now, who awarded Sunshine & Noir, 1st place in the travel book category. Black and White, Urban, Cityscape, Night
  • Creator:
  • Creation Year:
    2008
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 12 in (30.48 cm)Width: 33 in (83.82 cm)
  • Medium:
  • Period:
  • Framing:
    Framing Options Available
  • Condition:
  • Gallery Location:
    Hudson, NY
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: G12060811497

More From This Seller

View All
Lower Manhattan, New York City
By Thomas Michael Alleman
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing. Edition of 25. If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is prod...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Lower Manhattan, New York City
By Thomas Michael Alleman
Located in Hudson, NY
Black and White, New York, Night, Landscape, NYC, City Lights, Motion, bridge, cityscape, cars, b&w, black & white, vignette, urban photography, high contrast, motion blur, highway, ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Manhattan
By Michael McLaughlin
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 upon purchase. Please allow two weeks for production. Shipping time depends on method of shipping. Price is subject to availability. The Robin Rice Gallery reserves the right to adjust this price depending on the current edition of the photograph. ABOUT: Your Nearest Exit May Be Behind You, a reference to the traditional pre-flight instructions of airline hostesses, is fine art photographer Micheal McLaughlin's collection of the sights found universally in the act of travelling between countries and continents. From dark Hong Kong skylines...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Garment District, New York City
By Thomas Michael Alleman
Located in Hudson, NY
Black and White, Urban, New York, City Lights, Night, Cityscape, garment district, nyc, black & white, b&w, light ray, people. city, vignette, noir, walking, city, sunlight, high con...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

"Brooklyn, November 2002", New York, 2002
By Thomas Michael Alleman
Located in Hudson, NY
Alleman's interesting use of perspective creates a larger than life feeling that a new comer experiences when visiting NYC for the first time. Skyscrapers and bridges tower overhead ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

58th Street
By Michael McLaughlin
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

You May Also Like

Untitled (Manhattan)
By Peter Marks
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Photo montage in five sections juxtaposing light and dark mounted to support sheet. Unsigned Provenance: Estate of the artist Support sheet dimensions: 14 x 17" Peter Marks...
Category

Early 2000s Landscape Photography

Materials

Mixed Media, Photographic Paper

Untitled (1107-44, Nyc), Original Black and White Photograph of NYC, 2014
By Koyo Tamaki
Located in Boston, MA
Untitled (1107-44, Nyc), Original Black and White Photograph of NYC, 2014 Artist Commentary: This is the first print in an edition of five. Approxi...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Manhattan
By Marc Yankus
Located in New York, NY
Archival pigment print Signed and numbered on label, verso 17 x 22 inches, sheet size (Edition of 15) 27 x 38 inches, sheet size (Edition of 9) From the series, "New York Unseen" This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City. Marc Yankus’ fine art and publishing experience span a period of more than thirty years. His work has been included in exhibitions at The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York; Exit Art, New York City; The Library of Congress, Washington, DC; and ClampArt, New York City. Yankus’ artwork has graced the covers of books by Salman Rushdie, Philip Roth...
Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

New York City, Photography of Cities Skyline and Waterfront, Lower Manhattan I
By Roberta Fineberg
Located in New york, NY
A black-and-white photograph, Lower Manhattan I by photographer Roberta Fineberg from her Cities series offers a view of the skyline from the East River shot at dusk from a small boa...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper

Midtown, NYC
By Marc Yankus
Located in New York, NY
Archival pigment print Signed, titled, numbered, and dated, verso 17 x 11 inches, sheet (Edition of 15) 22 x 17 inches, sheet (Edition of 15) This photograph is offered by ClampAr...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

View from Midtown, New York City - Manhattan Cityscape Skyline Photograph
By Richard Heeps
Located in Cambridge, GB
New York Cityscape, panorama photograph capturing the Manhattan skyline from Richard Heeps series, The Streets of New York. This artwork is a limited edition of 25 gloss photographic print from negative, dry-mounted to aluminium, presented in a museum board white window mount and a choice of black or white box frame. It is signed and numbered on reverse accompanied by a certificate of authenticity. Handmade to order, this artwork is available unframed and in other sizes. It pairs well with other Richard Heeps artworks in our 1stdibs store. “Richard Heeps' seductive, highly-saturated colours and sophisticated pictorial structures demonstrate a true love and empathy for this subject matter – be it cool, descriptive interiors, still life or landscape.” His distinctive style pushes the limits of photography. The collectable and affordable, hand-printed colour photographs combine the best in traditional processing with the latest archival materials – from photographic paper to mounting with a 100% cotton museum board. His artwork has been bought by many international collectors. Exhibitions Include: Royal Academy of Arts London, Photoville Brooklyn, The Photographers Gallery London, The Spitz Gallery London, Kettle's Yard Cambridge, Norwich Arts Centre. The Civic Centre Thurrock, 20-21 Visual Arts Centre Scunthorpe, Rochester Art Gallery, Preston Hall...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin