{"product_id":"untitled-cobble-constellation-2011","title":"Barney Kulok: Untitled (Cobble Constellation), 2011","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis photograph of loose cobblestones scattered atop a gridded bed of similar pieces is from Barney Kulok’s book \u003cem\u003eBuilding: Louis I. Kahn at Roosevelt Island\u003c\/em\u003e, published by Aperture in 2012. In the fall of 2011, Kulok was granted special permission to create photographs at the construction site of the Kahn’s Four Freedoms Park, commissioned in 1970 as a memorial to Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The last design Kahn completed before his untimely death in 1974, the park became widely regarded as one of the great unbuilt masterpieces of twentieth-century architecture. Kulok’s black-and-white photographs translate the austere geometry and muscular presence of Kahn’s designs, yet, as this photograph demonstrates, also function as a lyrical meditation on Minimal and Post-Minimal art.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this work, moody grays demonstrate Kulok’s remarkable control of tonal range, and the series as a whole functions as a statement about the value of carefully measured photographic seeing at a time when the instant digital photo has become the common currency of the medium. Here form and texture merge. As architect Steven Holl writes, “Kulok’s photographs free the subject matter from a literal interpretation of the site. They stand as ‘Equivalents’ to the words about material, light, and shadow that Louis Kahn often spoke.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aperture","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42514098225286,"sku":"LB009","price":850.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0585\/5399\/1302\/files\/Aperture-LB009-1_cacf9b3a-fc26-43f0-97f9-bc4f575e6b6c.jpg?v=1763776009","url":"https:\/\/store.aperture.org\/products\/untitled-cobble-constellation-2011","provider":"Aperture","version":"1.0","type":"link"}