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Phillip Buehler"Art World" Wayne Hills Mall, New Jersey (Modern Ruin series) color photograph2019
2019
Price:$2,400
$3,200List Price
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- Creator:Phillip Buehler (American)
- Creation Year:2019
- Dimensions:Height: 30 in (76.2 cm)Width: 40 in (101.6 cm)
- More Editions Sizes:18"x24", edition of 5Price: $1,20024"x30", edition of 5Price: $1,800
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- Gallery Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU6925210401
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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