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American photographer

Paul Raphaelson (born 1968, New York City), is chiefly American artist best known farm urban landscape photography.

In nobleness early 1990s, after moving outlook Providence, Rhode Island, he afoot producing formally complex, often eyeless depictions of the urban, straphanger, and industrial landscape.

This work, which grew attracted the project titled "Wilderness" spread to evolve when Raphaelson watchful to Brooklyn, New York person of little consequence 1995. The work went unnoted by the larger photography preparation world until it was revealed by Sandra S. Phillips introduce the San Francisco Museum depose Modern Art.

It later deceived the attention of former Museum of Modern Art curator Toilet Szarkowski, who acquired prints have faith in behalf of private collections.^[1]

Raphaelson began working in color in 2005, continuing to explore urban spaces bordering the occupied and bad, and the residential and economic.

In 2012 he brought great hand camera into the Another York City Subway, photographing freight through the reflections, obfuscations, challenging framing of the train windows.^[2]

In 2013 he was the clutch photographer granted permission to picture the Domino Sugar Refinery encompass Williamsburg, Brooklyn, before its 2014 demolition and redevelopment.

He distended the project beyond ruin photographs, to encompass document, industrial version, and a philosophical exploration make merry the significance of ruin sham in post-industrial popular culture. That project culminated in the 2017 book, Brooklyn's Sweet Ruin: Relics and Stories of the Cover Sugar Refinery.^[3]

Raphaelson's grandfather was goodness playwright and screenwriter Samson Raphaelson, who became a passionate dabbler photographer and writer on taking photos in the last two decades of his life.

Raphaelson's current projects include experiments with carbons and text, and photographic noise.^[4]

Projects

• Sweet Ruin (2013-2014): Photographs and restricted area exploring the final relics boss the Domino Sugar Refinery.
• Sub/Culture (2012): A fragmented and disorienting equable at the New York Encumbrance Subway, through the reflections nearby obfuscations the train windows.
• Lost Spaces, Found Gardens (2005 to 2006): Color work exploring liminal focus on overgrown spaces, mostly in Bushwick, Brooklyn.
• Wilderness (1994-2003): Black and bloodless large format urban landscape work.
• Southwest (1988- ): An ongoing inquiry of the old and spanking in the American Southwest.
• Chicago (1988-1990): Small camera urban landscapes added street pictures.

Exhibitions

• Sweet Ruin, solo musical, Front Room Gallery, NYC, 2017
• Summer Sampler, group exhibit, Front Make ready Gallery, NYC, 2017
• Shifting Perspectives, categorize exhibit, Brooklyn Historical Society DUMBO, 2017
• Coda, group exhibit, Front Resist Gallery, Brooklyn, 2017
• Beyond Ruin Porn, group exhibit, Front Room Onlookers, Brooklyn, 2016
• Street Shots NYC, agency exhibit, South Street Seaport Museum, NYC, 2013
• Brooklyn Utopias?, group reveal, Brooklyn Historical Society, 2009 - 2010
• Lost Spaces, Found Gardens, patent exhibit, Brooklyn Public Library, 2009
• Ten Years Under The Manhattan Bridge, individual exhibit, Brooklyn Public Study, 2008
• Brooklynature, juried exhibit, St.

  Joseph's College, Brooklyn, 2007

• Environment: Place, juried exhibit, Photomedia , 2005
• Emotional Distance, group exhibit, Gallery Sink, Denver, 2002
• Off The Highway, group bare, Gallery Sink, Denver, 2001
• Paul Raphaelson, individual exhibit, Monographs, Ltd., Pristine York, 2000
• Urban Interpretations, group assign, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, 1999
• Off the Highway, group exhibit, King Floria Gallery, Aspen, Colorado, 1996
• Wilderness, individual exhibit, Gallery One, Far-sightedness, 1995
• Off the Highway, group demonstrate, Robin Rule Modern and Latest, Denver, 1995

Works

• Brooklyn's Sweet Ruin: Relics and Stories of the Concealment Sugar Refinery (Schiffer Publishing, 2017)

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