Vintage 1950s Fine Art Photograph NYC Urban Modernism Construction Manhattan Lrg

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Thanks to all our eBay bidders! We are honored to be your one-stop, 5-star source for vintage pin up, pulp magazines, original illustration art, decorative collectibles and ephemera with a wide and always changing assortment of antique and vintage items from the Victorian, Art Nouveau, Art Deco; Mid-Century Modern eras. All items are 100% guaranteed to be original, vintage, and as described. Please feel free to contact us with any and all questions about the items and our policies and please take a moment to peruse our other great eBay listings. All sell no reserve!ITEM: A mid-century photograph by Life Magazine photographer and photojournalist Alfred Statler. Part of a career spanning body of work by the artist, which examined city life amongst the construction and skyscrapers of New York City, Statler's photography presents a visual narrative of a city in the midst of change. A gritty street photograph showing the hollowed out beginnings of a construction site where the next great New York City skyscraper is in development. With an urbanist aesthetic, Alfred Statler spent almost his entire career documenting and exploring the city and his work has both historical and artistic relevancy. An arenaceous view of the post-war construction boom that captures the change in the air, almost literally.Measures 11" x 13 3/4" on a semi-gloss double weight paper stock.Photographer's ink stamp on verso.An important piece of pop art and American cultural history. This comes from the estate of Alfred Statler from his career with TIME magazine.CONDITION: Fine+ condition with soft corners. Please use the included images as a conditional guide.Grapefruit Moon Gallery has acquired an extensive selection from the personal and professional archive of the New York photojournalists Alfred and Betty Statler. Along with test prints, negatives, contact sheets, and ephemera from Alfred's professional and artistic career, the collection includes an impression array of his original paintings. We will be listing various examples from both photographers in the coming weeks, including psychedelic dancers, Essence sessions, cat portraits, and Warhol/Factory stills as well as portraits of luminaries Alfred photographed for Time magazine from the 1950s-1970s.Below is a small sample of some of the photographs and ephemera that we have acquired from the Statler estate. These are shown for reference only and are not included in this auction.Artist's Biography: Self-made, cat-crazy photographer couple Alfred and Betty Statler captured the heyday of New York's art scene, its celebrities and intellectual elite, and the sometimes gritty underbelly of the city's industrial core. Drawn to the City's artistic and intellectual milieu, and to each other, the two documented New York City and their travels around the world.Alfred Staler was born Alfred Goldschmidt in the Bronx, New York City, in 1916. He served in a European photography unit during World War II, developing his photography skills. He returned to the states and enrolled at Cooper Union, then jetted off to France to refined his medium in the City of Lights, documenting the European post-war period. While living in Paris he studied painting under Fernand Léger. After two years, Statler and his wife Betty found themselves back in New York, where Alfred freelanced for most of the important periodicals of the day, his work appearing in the New York Times , LIFE , the Saturday Evening Post , among others. But he is best recognized for his pairing with Time magazine. Known for his photojournalist/documentary approach to assignments, Statler preferred to capture his subjects in their "real life;" at work, at lunch, or at home. He photographed the likes of Elie Wiesel, Duke Ellington, Andy Warhol, and Walter Cronkite, to name but a few of the artists and political figures who knew his lens. Alfred Statler died in NYC in 1984.Betty Statler was born Elizabeth Marie Eslinger in Indiana, in 1921. She moved to New York City in 1939 and found work at the New York Public L... read more

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