Carlo Van de Roer - The Bowery

When I made this image my studio was at the New Museum on the Bowery in NY. I was very interested in the history of that area, including the revivalist architecture. I was wanting to make work which dealt with the act of rearticulating the past when creating identity and history. This image was an early experiment in developing a photographic process along that path. The image was made by first exposing a sheet of large format film to light entering the iconic 190 Bowery building as the blackouts were removed and the building began its transformation from the somewhat secret home and darkroom of a well known photographer. The negative was then put through a process which liquefies the ...View all