Barry Frydlender - Photographs New York Friday, April 5, 2024 | Phillips
  • “They’re not really photographs anymore. They’re a marriage of the technologies, the art of the camera and the art of the computer.”
    —Barry Frydlender

    Using both camera and digital editing technology, Barry Frydlender inserts subtle clues into his constructed panoramas that hint at their hybrid nature. In the present image, the leftmost building in the frame has a perfectly vertical wall but the adjacent lamp post is bent by lens distortion. The bag-carrying couple at center are seen twice. Two men dressed in red and orange who stride along the sidewalk at right reappear in the far left tucked behind a taxi. Frydlender’s images reward close attention, and his carefully planted “Easter eggs” present a meditation on the increasing malleability of photographic image making.  

    • Provenance

      Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York, 2006

PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF AN AMERICAN COLLECTOR

252

Little West 12th & Gansevoort

2005
Chromogenic print, mounted.
39 3/8 x 89 3/4 in. (100 x 228 cm)
Overall 50 x 101 in. (127 x 256.5 cm)

Signed on a label accompanying the work. Number 2 from an edition of 5.

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Estimate
$20,000 - 30,000 

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New York Auction 5 April 2024