{"id":337789,"date":"2019-12-12T10:42:16","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T15:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/?p=337789"},"modified":"2021-12-15T06:29:03","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T11:29:03","slug":"phillip-buehler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/phillip-buehler\/","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: The Death of a Mall in New Jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/photography\/color-photography\/phillip-buehler-avenue-exterior-wayne-hills-mall-from-modern-ruins-series-color-photograph\/id-a_5210561\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"574\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/avenue_exterior_sign_master.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;Avenue Exterior&quot; Wayne Hills Mall, 2019\" class=\"wp-image-337818\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/avenue_exterior_sign_master.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/avenue_exterior_sign_master-468x350.jpg 468w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/avenue_exterior_sign_master-120x90.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><figcaption><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/photography\/color-photography\/phillip-buehler-avenue-exterior-wayne-hills-mall-from-modern-ruins-series-color-photograph\/id-a_5210561\/\">Avenue Exterior, <\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/photography\/color-photography\/phillip-buehler-avenue-exterior-wayne-hills-mall-from-modern-ruins-series-color-photograph\/id-a_5210561\/\">2019<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The photographer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/creators\/phillip-buehler\/art\/\">Phillip Buehler<\/a> has devoted his career to exploring obsolete sites, what he calls \u201cmodern ruins.\u201d Captured in states of evocative decay, his subjects have included an abandoned psychiatric asylum, a Cold War missile silo and an offline power plant. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His latest body of work, on view in the exhibition \u201cMallrat to Snapchat: The End of the Third Place\u201d \u2014 at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/dealers\/front-room-gallery\/shop\/art\/\">Front Room Gallery<\/a>, in New York, through January 12 \u2014 may elicit more nostalgia than the others. It\u2019s a look at New Jersey\u2019s defunct Wayne Hills Mall and, by extension, at the dying culture of middle-class suburban shopping centers across the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/photography\/color-photography\/phillip-buehler-mall-closed-wayne-hills-mall-nj-modern-ruins-series-color-photograph\/id-a_5210551\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"531\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/mall_is_closed_master.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-337895\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/mall_is_closed_master.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/mall_is_closed_master-506x350.jpg 506w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/mall_is_closed_master-120x83.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><figcaption><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/photography\/color-photography\/phillip-buehler-mall-closed-wayne-hills-mall-nj-modern-ruins-series-color-photograph\/id-a_5210551\/\">Mall Is Closed<\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/photography\/color-photography\/phillip-buehler-mall-closed-wayne-hills-mall-nj-modern-ruins-series-color-photograph\/id-a_5210551\/\">, 2019<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In Buehler\u2019s photographs, taken as the mall was being demolished to make way for a grocery store, the stores have been stripped of all fixtures and ravaged by the elements. Some still have signs that identify them as former music or photo-developing shops. Eerie as they are, these shots convey Buehler\u2019s fond memories of the \u201cmallrat\u201d scene of the 1970s and \u201980s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the gallery, he has installed an homage to his favorite mall store, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/photography\/color-photography\/phillip-buehler-sam-goody-wayne-hills-mall-nj-modern-ruin-series-color-photograph\/id-a_5210271\/\">Sam Goody<\/a> \u2014 complete with a turntable and bins of albums \u2014 and even booked an appearance by an original Wayne Hills Mall Santa. The week of the show\u2019s opening, he spoke with <em>The Study<\/em> about the malls of his youth, his attraction to dying spaces and the future of shopping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/photography\/color-photography\/phillip-buehler-waldenbooks-wayne-hills-mall-new-jersey-modern-ruins-color-photograph\/id-a_5343972\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/waldenbooks_master.jpg\" alt=\"Waldenbooks\" class=\"wp-image-337820\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/waldenbooks_master.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/waldenbooks_master-467x350.jpg 467w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/waldenbooks_master-120x90.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><figcaption><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/photography\/color-photography\/phillip-buehler-waldenbooks-wayne-hills-mall-new-jersey-modern-ruins-color-photograph\/id-a_5343972\/\">Waldenbooks<\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/photography\/color-photography\/phillip-buehler-waldenbooks-wayne-hills-mall-new-jersey-modern-ruins-color-photograph\/id-a_5343972\/\">, 2019<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong>What was your personal experience of mall culture, growing up in New Jersey? Did you go to the Wayne Hills Mall as a teenager?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I grew up in a working-class town about 15 miles from the Wayne Hills Mall. My friends and I went as soon as we got our driver\u2019s licenses. There wasn\u2019t much going on in a suburb without a downtown. It was all happening at the mall \u2014 flipping through albums at Sam Goody or magazines at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/photography\/color-photography\/phillip-buehler-waldenbooks-wayne-hills-mall-new-jersey-modern-ruins-color-photograph\/id-a_5343972\/\">Waldenbooks<\/a> or shopping for jeans at the Gap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/photography\/color-photography\/phillip-buehler-art-world-wayne-hills-mall-new-jersey-modern-ruin-series-color-photograph\/id-a_5210401\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"513\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/art_world_master.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-337888\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/art_world_master.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/art_world_master-524x350.jpg 524w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/art_world_master-120x80.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><figcaption><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/photography\/color-photography\/phillip-buehler-art-world-wayne-hills-mall-new-jersey-modern-ruin-series-color-photograph\/id-a_5210401\/\">Art World<\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/photography\/color-photography\/phillip-buehler-art-world-wayne-hills-mall-new-jersey-modern-ruin-series-color-photograph\/id-a_5210401\/\">, 2019<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong>How was the mall similar to other modern ruins you\u2019ve photographed? How was it different?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I started photographing abandoned places the same year the mall opened, 1973, when I was a senior in high school. 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 \u2014 most were cinematic. Two films released in 1968 made a big impression on me: <em>2001: A Space Odyssey<\/em> and <em>Planet of the Apes<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Wayne Hills Mall is one of the only modern ruins I\u2019ve photographed that I actually remember from when it was thriving. This ruin was much more modern than the others. It had been vacant for only about five years, although it looked like it had been abandoned for decades. It was also very different from other dead malls, which are usually just sealed up, awaiting redevelopment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/photography\/color-photography\/phillip-buehler-main-entrance-wayne-hills-mall-new-jersey-modern-ruins-color-photograph\/id-a_5344282\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"614\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/main_entrance__master.jpg\" alt=\"Main Entrance\" class=\"wp-image-337823\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/main_entrance__master.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/main_entrance__master-438x350.jpg 438w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/main_entrance__master-120x96.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><figcaption><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/photography\/color-photography\/phillip-buehler-main-entrance-wayne-hills-mall-new-jersey-modern-ruins-color-photograph\/id-a_5344282\/\">Main Entrance<\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/photography\/color-photography\/phillip-buehler-main-entrance-wayne-hills-mall-new-jersey-modern-ruins-color-photograph\/id-a_5344282\/\">, 2019<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong>It looks more like a disaster zone than a construction site, as if a hurricane or tornado had come through. What exactly happened there?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The mall started to atrophy around 2008, when the Sam Goody at one end closed. The owners put up a wall to close off that part, and as more stores closed, they moved the wall. Sometime after the last stores closed, in 2014, they removed the metal covering the seams in the roof, allowing rainwater to pour in. That brought down the drop ceilings and left lakes throughout, creating wonderful reflections and giving it that postapocalyptic feeling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/photography\/color-photography\/phillip-buehler-sam-goody-wayne-hills-mall-nj-modern-ruin-series-color-photograph\/id-a_5210271\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/sam_goody_master.jpg\" alt=\"Sam Goody\" class=\"wp-image-337819\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/sam_goody_master.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/sam_goody_master-498x350.jpg 498w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/sam_goody_master-120x84.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/sam_goody_master-640x450.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><figcaption><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/photography\/color-photography\/phillip-buehler-sam-goody-wayne-hills-mall-nj-modern-ruin-series-color-photograph\/id-a_5210271\/\">Sam Goody<\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/photography\/color-photography\/phillip-buehler-sam-goody-wayne-hills-mall-nj-modern-ruin-series-color-photograph\/id-a_5210271\/\">, 2019<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong>Is there a particular image that most resonated with you? Or a particular store?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/photography\/color-photography\/phillip-buehler-sam-goody-wayne-hills-mall-nj-modern-ruin-series-color-photograph\/id-a_5210271\/\">Sam Goody<\/a> was the first sign I saw when I entered the mall to photograph, and that was a weird d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu moment \u2014 as a teenager I spent many hours flipping through record albums with friends. In the exhibition, I\u2019m using music to transport people to 1973, the year the mall opened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The image that most resonated with me, though, was the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/photography\/color-photography\/phillip-buehler-atrium-wayne-hills-mall-new-jersey-modern-ruins-color-photograph\/id-a_5344402\/\"> atrium ceiling<\/a>. When you shoot it from underneath, it looks almost like a kaleidoscope. Architecturally, it reminded me of the orbiting space station from Stanley Kubrick\u2019s <em>2001: A Space Odyssey<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/photography\/color-photography\/phillip-buehler-atrium-wayne-hills-mall-new-jersey-modern-ruins-color-photograph\/id-a_5344402\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"609\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/atrium_master.jpg\" alt=\"Atrium\" class=\"wp-image-337826\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/atrium_master.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/atrium_master-441x350.jpg 441w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/atrium_master-120x95.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><figcaption><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/photography\/color-photography\/phillip-buehler-atrium-wayne-hills-mall-new-jersey-modern-ruins-color-photograph\/id-a_5344402\/\">Atrium<\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/photography\/color-photography\/phillip-buehler-atrium-wayne-hills-mall-new-jersey-modern-ruins-color-photograph\/id-a_5344402\/\">, 2019<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong>Are there any historical artworks, artists or photographers you were thinking about when you made this series?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was thinking about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/creators\/andy-warhol\/art\/\">Warhol<\/a>, brands and consumerism but focusing more on the role malls have played in how we connect to each other. I\u2019d read Ray Oldenburg\u2019s book <em>The Good Place<\/em> when it came out, in 1989, and thought about what we would lose as a society as malls disappeared. In the book, Oldenburg used the phrase \u201cthe third place\u201d to represent that place you go after home and work, like the pub or the mall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/photography\/color-photography\/phillip-buehler-santas-stage-wayne-hills-mall-new-jersey-modern-ruins-color-photograph\/id-a_5344042\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"614\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/santa_stage_master.jpg\" alt=\"Santa's Stage\" class=\"wp-image-337840\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/santa_stage_master.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/santa_stage_master-438x350.jpg 438w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/santa_stage_master-120x96.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><figcaption><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/photography\/color-photography\/phillip-buehler-santas-stage-wayne-hills-mall-new-jersey-modern-ruins-color-photograph\/id-a_5344042\/\">Santa&#8217;s Stage<\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/photography\/color-photography\/phillip-buehler-santas-stage-wayne-hills-mall-new-jersey-modern-ruins-color-photograph\/id-a_5344042\/\">, 2019<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong>Although middle-class malls like Wayne Hills are on the way out, other, more upscale malls are thriving. Have you been to Hudson Yards, in Manhattan, or the American Dream Mall, in New Jersey\u2019s Meadowlands? What do you make of them?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new malls are trying to stay alive by doing what Amazon can\u2019t: give shoppers an experience. The American Dream Mall is as much an amusement park as a shopping center, with a ski slope, rides and theaters. Hudson Yards was smart in adding art galleries into the mix. We\u2019ll have to wait and see if anyone besides affluent tourists visit these malls \u2014 I doubt they\u2019ll be filled with mallrats and mall walkers, like the old malls were.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Malls that can\u2019t afford to reinvent themselves will fade away. 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