Photo Transfer on Wood with Brass Frame, Leveque Tower

This early original photography by the late Brian McKee (1977-2018) of a war-torn Castle in Northern Afghanistan. This is a chromogenic print mounted on aluminum - Series 1 of 5, from 2002. Provenance: This amazing piece was purchased at Art Basel (Switzerland) in 2002 from Galerie Ernst Hilger (Vienna). Paperwork to be provided at time of purchase. THIS ITEM IS LOCATED AND WILL SHIP FROM OUR MIAMI, FLORIDA SHOWROOM. Biography Brian McKee was born in 1977 in Excelsior Springs, Missouri and attended the Interlochen Arts Academy and Bard College. While at Bard College he studied photography with Stephen Shore, Larry Fink and Barbara Ess as well as writing under John Ashbery whose assistant he was for more than three years. For five years he was the assistant to the photographer Lynn Davis. He lived and worked in New York City/USA, Vienna/Austria and Istanbul/Turkey. Brian McKee called himself “a visual historian” who ventured to “convey a unique and important view of select aspects of World History” with his photographs. “Within architecture and landscapes I find my true subject, the detritus of civilization, and seek to explore the way we define and relate to its existence. Although creating precisely composed and executed images I carefully chose projects that have a conceptual meaning and importance beyond their visual interest or beauty.” For the past 15 years McKee had focused on examining and visualizing a body of work that explored both the current and past social and political atmospheres of countries around the world. Photographing with an 8x10 inch Deardorff plate camera he composed poetic images, which conveyed a complex untold narrative embedded in an immaculate concept, which didn’t only exist for aesthetic purposes. He was fond of ”the idea that houses, buildings, towns and cities provide us with a true understanding of the cultures that inhabited those spaces. At the same time they are a reflection of the social, political and personal atmosphere that created them.” His signature subject of the rise and fall began 1999 when he photographed Soviet military...

Block print of abstract design, framed and museum glass. Signed and listed artist.

This all original large scale picture frame by Aldo Tura, with stand holds a 5x7 photo. It is a creamy aged goatskin and golden metal trim. It retains label to verso. THIS ITEM IS...

This is a series of three (3) professional SIGNED photography of Las Vegas neon sign boneyard. The Neon Museum in Las Vegas, Nevada, features signs from old casinos and other busine...

Framed Three Dimensional New York City Skyline Photograph with the Twin Towers Offered for sale is a framed overscale black and white photograph of New York...

Jean-pascal Bredenbac, photo on sheet metal, mounted on wooden panel, Dated 2000.

Proposal: 720 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, by Richard Haas, American, 1977. Gelatin silver print photographs framed under glass. Signed lower right.

Jefferson Hayman is an artist whose work explores the themes of nostalgia, common symbols, and memory. Each photograph is handcrafted as a silver gelatin, platinum or pigment print, ...