By Phillip Buehler
Located in New York, NY
24"x30 contemporary color photograph, limited edition of 5, signed on reverse by the artist, Phillip Buehler. The shuttered gate of Waldenbooks appears as an ineffectual effort in the dilapidated scene captured by Phillip Buehler. The once brilliant sign has been removed, yet you can see the aura of the letters, appearing as black signage against a grey-black surface. Debris and trash litter the flooded corridor, creating a errie feeling.
This photograph is a featured in a solo exhibition of Phillip Buehler's photographs, entitled: “Mallrat to Snapchat: The End of the Third Place.”
Front Room Gallery is proud to present “Mallrat to Snapchat: The End of the Third Place,” on view November 29th - January 12th. January recent work by photographer Phillip Buehler documenting the death of the Wayne Hills Mall in Wayne, New Jersey. This is Buehler’s second solo show at Front Room Gallery.
Buehler’s exhibition is part photography, part installation, part cultural critique, mixed in with nostalgia and genuine affection for this very American economical and sociological experiment— The Mall. Buehler takes a very intimate look at the beginning, and possibly ending, of mall culture in the United States featuring not only photographs, but also artifacts from the mall and its opening year, 1973. Under a photograph of a desolate Sam Goody will be a bin filled with almost 100 albums from that year, that visitors can flip through and play in the gallery on a vintage record player...
Category
2010s Contemporary Kristian Schuller Photography
MaterialsArchival Pigment