Park Avenue Atrium (1987) (for Texte zur Kunst no. 16)
  • editioned print
  • other printing process
  • black-and-white
  • 26.7 x 40 cm.
  • [1] pp.
  • edition size 180
  • signed and numbered

Park Avenue Atrium (1987) (for Texte zur Kunst no. 16)

Dan Graham

Park Avenue Atrium (1987) (for Texte zur Kunst no. 16)

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A photograph "Park Avenue Atrium (1987)" by Dan Graham published by "Texte zur Kunst" in conjunction with issue number 16. "Dan Graham Photo affects picturesque at first glance: a contemplative Café situation with two relaxed visitors. This place was provided as an idyll and now makes negated by him realities visible: in New York, there are many open spaces and lounges, financed by large companies and actually for recreation of employees and the range of working city dwellers and tourists thought. A natürlcihe segregation is glubt already reached by the fact that the poor and unemployed Keep away automatically. However, these places are also suitable for sleeping and as a storage area. Many homeless people spend the day on in these public places. In Graham's Photo however, the category "homeless" is questionable. There are few references to Obdachlsogkeit: the luggage cart and the scattered bags and food scraps. The status of the two seated men is not unique: in the one it could be an impoverished intellectuals, the other could be a Gelgenheitstrinker. Graham's picture makes it impossible to describe the socially excluded as 'different' or 'foreign.'" -- publisher's statement

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