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- Creator:Phillip Buehler (American)
- Dimensions:Height: 24 in (60.96 cm)Width: 30 in (76.2 cm)
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- Gallery Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU6921011183
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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- StaircaseBy Phillip BuehlerLocated in New York, NY20"x 24" available unframed This photograph depicts a look down a stairwell at Greystone Park Hospital, from a central perspective showing the cascading stairs as they recede int...Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
MaterialsArchival Pigment
- Tantalizing TakeoffBy Phillip BuehlerLocated in New York, NY18"x18" photograph, signed and editioned on reverse. (edition of 5) 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 Color Photography
MaterialsArchival Pigment
- "Salt Shed" Contemporary Color PhotographBy Phillip BuehlerLocated in New York, NYThe graphic red orange and white pattern of the tent canopy, composed with the metal trestle arches creates a visual symmetry in this color photograph. The soft geometry of the central salt pile mimic the arch and undulating forms in orange ceiling pattern of the shed. 24"x48" will photograph, signed and editioned on reverse. (edition of 5). Unframed, please inquire about framing options. 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...Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
MaterialsArchival Pigment
- "Art World" Wayne Hills Mall, New Jersey (Modern Ruin series) color photographBy Phillip BuehlerLocated in New York, NYlimited edition of 5, signed on reverse by the artist, Phillip Buehler. This photograph depicts the time ravaged corridor of the abandoned Wayne Hills Mall, in Wayne, New Jersey. A...Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
MaterialsArchival Pigment
- "Sam Goody" Wayne Hills Mall, NJ (Modern Ruin series) color photographBy Phillip BuehlerLocated in New York, NYlimited edition of 5, signed on reverse by the artist, Phillip Buehler. This photograph depicts the remnants of a Sam Goody shopfront in the now closed and demolished, Wayne Hills M...Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
MaterialsArchival Pigment
- "Avenue Exterior" Wayne Hills Mall (from Modern Ruins series) color photographBy Phillip BuehlerLocated in New York, NYlimited edition of 5, signed on reverse by the artist, Phillip Buehler. This photograph depicts the faint residual outlines of the sign to the Avenue store at the deserted Wayne Hills Mall...Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
MaterialsArchival Pigment
- Self Portrait – Jun Ahn, Photography, Fire, Woman, Petals Asia, ArtBy Jun AhnLocated in Zurich, CHJUN AHN (*1981, South Korea) Self Portrait 2021 Archival pigment print, face mounted to Acrylic (Diasec) Brown flame stained and hardened wood frame Image 101,6 x 134,6 cm (40 x 53 i...Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
MaterialsArchival Pigment
- Birdman, Lithuania 2018By Mindaugas GabrenasLocated in Hudson, NYThis listing is for the unframed photograph. The Robin Rice Gallery proudly announces SUMMERTIME Salon 2019, an annual photography exhibit featuring gallery artists as well as a fe...Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
MaterialsPhotographic Paper, Archival Pigment
- Blast Off, Maine, 2010Located in Hudson, NYThis listing is for the unframed photograph. The Robin Rice Gallery proudly announces SUMMERTIME Salon 2019, an annual photography exhibit featuring gallery artists as well as a fe...Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
MaterialsPhotographic Paper, Archival Pigment
- "Racehorse Blur Double", Sedgefield, UK, 2004By Pete KellyLocated in Hudson, NYPete Kelly finds his inspiration in nature and the landscape. Specifically focusing on, "The reclamation by nature of urban settings", Kelly finds a particularly strong aesthetic and...Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
MaterialsArchival Pigment
- New York 8:13AM, New YorkBy Leonardo PucciLocated in Hudson, NYListing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing. Edition of 15 CURRENT EXHIBITION - runs through May 6, 2018. Any framed photographs purchased during the show will be aft...Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
MaterialsArchival Pigment
- Paris 9:21PM, ParisBy Leonardo PucciLocated in Hudson, NYListing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing. Edition of 20 CURRENT EXHIBITION - runs through May 6, 2018. Any framed photographs purchased during the show will be aft...Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
MaterialsArchival Pigment