Phillip Buehler
American
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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"Registry - Ellis Island 1974" Contemporary Photograph, from Islands of New York
By Phillip Buehler
Located in New York, NY
18"x24" limited edition photograph, edition 1/5. This photograph depicts the interior of the then abandoned Ellis Island registry taken in 1974", featured in "Islands of New York" photographic series.
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...
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2010s Contemporary Phillip Buehler
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"Auditorium - North Brother Island, 1975" photograph from Islands of New York
By Phillip Buehler
Located in New York, NY
18"x24" limited edition historic photograph, edition 1/5. This photograph depicts the auditorium at Riverside Hospital. Riverside Hospital became an adolescent drug treatment facility from 1952 until 1964. This was the basis for the Broadway play, "Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie," which launched the career of Al Pacino when he won a Tony Award for his performance. Taken in 1975", this photograph is featured in "Islands of New York" photographic series.
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...
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2010s Contemporary Phillip Buehler
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"Ferry - Ellis Island 1974" Contemporary Photograph, from Islands of New York
By Phillip Buehler
Located in New York, NY
18"x24" limited edition historic photograph, edition 1/5. This photograph depicts a partially sunken Staten Island at the then abandoned dock along Ellis Island. Taken in 1974", this photograph is featured in "Islands of New York" photographic series.
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...
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2010s Contemporary Phillip Buehler
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"Tiny Planet, Bannermans" contemporary photograph. limited edition of 25
By Phillip Buehler
Located in New York, NY
Signed editioned 18"x18" photograph edition of 25, depicting a spherical panoramic image of Bannerman's Castle, on Pollepel Island in the Hudson Valley. The principal feature on the island is Bannerman's Castle, an abandoned military surplus warehouse.
This photograph is included in the series, “No Man Is an Island: Poetry in the Ruins of the New York Archipelago,” fifty years of work by photographer Phillip Buehler documenting many of the islands surrounding Manhattan.
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...
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2010s Contemporary Phillip Buehler
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Photographic Paper
"Registry - Ellis Island 1974" Contemporary Photograph, from Islands of New York
By Phillip Buehler
Located in New York, NY
30"x40" limited edition photograph, edition 1/5. This photograph depicts the interior of the then abandoned Ellis Island registry taken in 1974", featured in "Islands of New York" photographic series.
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...
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2010s Contemporary Phillip Buehler
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"Rat Island" Contemporary Photograph, from "Islands of New York" series
By Phillip Buehler
Located in New York, NY
30"x40" limited edition photograph, edition 1/5. This photograph depicts Rat Island and is featured in the series, "Islands of New York".
Emerald green waters surrounds this small island in New York. In 2016, Alex Schibli, the Swiss owner of this private island, placed a statue William Tell on the island (it is currently laying on its side waiting to be reinstalled upright). The statue is a reproduction of a monument located in Altdorf, Switzerland, that honors him as a freedom fighter.
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...
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2010s Contemporary Phillip Buehler
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Photographic Paper
"F-106 Delta Darts, AMARG, Arizona" Color Photograph, limited edition
By Phillip Buehler
Located in New York, NY
In Buehler’s color photograph from a military airplane storage yard in Arizona, the F-106 Delta Darts parked in alignment, their silver tails recede into the...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Phillip Buehler
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Archival Pigment
Four Photograph Set, Abstract Landscape Conceptual Color Photograph series
By Phillip Buehler
Located in New York, NY
Included are four 18"x24", signed, editioned color photographs. Each of the four photographs depict a a different landscape painting hung on a distressed wall. From a rural town vi...
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2010s Contemporary Phillip Buehler
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Archival Pigment
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