Vintage gelatin silver print, mounted under mat
New York, USA, 1980s
Josef Polleross (b. 1963) – Austrian photographer
Signed in pencil and titled ‘Josef Polleross / Brooklyn, Botanical Garden 1980s / vintage exhibition print’ on verso
Signed lower right as well as titled and dated lower left in pencil on the mat
Image size: 26.6 x 26.6 cm
Very good condition
Josef Polleross is regarded a master of artistic and journalist photography; here he took a whimsical snapshot in the New York Botanical Garden
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The present photograph by Josef Polleross depicts two women and a man, dressed in period fashion, sitting on a bench outside a greenhouse. The trio seems undeterred by the camera and refuses to pose for the Viennese photographer. The photo was taken in the Botanical Garden in New York City, where Polleross started his extraordinary career as a photojournalist in the 1980s.



The gelatin silver gelatin print is signed in pencil and titled ‘Josef Polleross / Brooklyn, Botanical Garden 1980s / vintage exhibition print’ on verso. The mat is signed ‘Josef Polleross’ lower right as well as titled and dated ‘NYC, Botanical Gardens 1980‘s’ lower left in pencil. The print is in very good condition; it is mounted with photo corners under a mat. The sheet it a little wavy. The image size is 26.6 x 26.6 cm and the size of the sheet is 35.4 x 27.8 cm. The mat measures 50 x 40 cm.



Josef Polleross (b. 1963)

Josef Polleross has already lived in New York, Cairo and Bangkok. In the 1980s, he started a career as a photo reporter in cooperation with the photo agency JB-Pictures in New York, which not only let him travel to many places of the world but also resulted in cover pages of many international print media. His photographs for political and social coverages were published e.g. in New York Times, Washington Post, Life, Newsweek, Time, Geo, Stern and Spiegel. A few years ago Polleross has almost entirely turned towards artistic photography. With his triptychs he succeeded in diverse national and international exhibitions, as well as with photo book publications. (tfa)

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