Exhibition

1 The Concorde after takeoff three miles from JFK International Airport New York, April 26, 1993
Archival Pigment print, 36 x 36 inches, 91 x 91 cm
1 The Concorde after takeoff three miles from JFK International Airport New York, April 26, 1993
Archival Pigment print, 36 x 36 inches, 91 x 91 cm

Cabinet:

Frank Schramm (*1957 USA)

"Planes Sights" (1989-1993) Eröffnung/Opening, Donnerstag/Thursday, 6. March, 6 - 8 pm.

Frank Schramm was born in 1957 and lives in New York. He started his career in fashion photography, working with photographer Albert Watson before being commissioned by Vogue, Elle, Harper’s Bazaar and other magazines. Fascinated by how photography can transcend reality, influenced by Irving Penn – especially his still lives – he has produced many personal projects on places and objects of everyday life. His series “Plane Sights” (1989-1993) shows commercial aircraft in flight, silver giants weightless against the skies. It was exhibited at the Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne (CH) in 1995 and is part of the collections of many institutions, including the Metropolitan Museum in New York; Los Angeles County Museum, the Victoria & Albert Museum in London and the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris.

Press Release

Planes / Frank Schramm

This series of work began in August 1989 and was inspired by the early aviation photographs by the French photographers André Kertész and Jacques-Henri Lartigue.

My pursuit was to chase down the landings and takeoffs of “heavies” of, contemporary commercial aircraft, as they lift their massive bodies into and out of the sky. L-1011′s, DC-10′s, A-300′s, 747′s, and the Concorde.

My obsession began at JFK international Airport and included La Guardia, Newark, Miami, Ronald Regan National Airport, Washington DC, Charles de Gaulle, Paris, and Kloten, Zurich.

As a child, traveling on highways and witnessing low flying jets cruising noisily very close overhead near Newark Airport on road trips to New York City with my family, I was captivated by the catapulting of an oversize machine bigger than a large house shadowing over our car as we passed through tollbooth near the airport.

Later, after a year into the project, I began to realize that machines where flying all the time over my head…. I wondered about the mysteries of what was going on inside these fuselage bodies catapulted into the skies flying over 500 miles an hour. At times I felt like I owned the sky, and the more times I stood under these gigantic machines, the more obsessed I became about witnessing the frequency with which these fragile bodies of aviation occupied the spaciousness of the sky.

Frank Schramm

Works
The Concorde after takeoff three miles from JFK International Airport New York, April 26, 1993

The Concorde after takeoff three miles from JFK International Airport New York, April 26, 1993
All images are analog and are printed on silver bromide archival black and white photographic paper.
Ad. of 10 / 30 x 30 (inch) 75 x 75 cm and / und Ad. of 20 / 20 x 24 (inch) 50 x 60 cm.

The Concorde after takeoff three miles from JFK International Airport New York, April 26, 1993

The Concorde after takeoff three miles from JFK International Airport New York, April 26, 1993
All images are analog and are printed on silver bromide archival black and white photographic paper.
Ad. of 10 / 30 x 30 (inch) 75 x 75 cm and / und Ad. of 20 / 20 x 24 (inch) 50 x 60 cm.

Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, L-1011 Tristar approaching J.F.K. International Airport, New York October 22, 1990

Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, L-1011 Tristar approaching J.F.K. International Airport, New York October 22, 1990
All images are analog and are printed on silver bromide archival black and white photographic paper.
Ad. of 10 / 30 x 30 (inch) 75 x 75 cm and / und Ad. of 20 / 20 x 24 (inch) 50 x 60 cm.

Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, L-1011 Tristar approaching J.F.K. International Airport, New York October 22, 1990

Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, L-1011 Tristar approaching J.F.K. International Airport, New York October 22, 1990
All images are analog and are printed on silver bromide archival black and white photographic paper.
Ad. of 10 / 30 x 30 (inch) 75 x 75 cm and / und Ad. of 20 / 20 x 24 (inch) 50 x 60 cm.

2 Airbus Industries A-300 on takeoff from Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle, France, October 7, 1989

2 Airbus Industries A-300 on takeoff from Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle, France, October 7, 1989
All images are analog and are printed on silver bromide archival black and white photographic paper.
Ad. of 10 / 30 x 30 (inch) 75 x 75 cm and / und Ad. of 20 / 20 x 24 (inch) 50 x 60 cm.

2 Airbus Industries A-300 on takeoff from Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle, France, October 7, 1989

2 Airbus Industries A-300 on takeoff from Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle, France, October 7, 1989
All images are analog and are printed on silver bromide archival black and white photographic paper.
Ad. of 10 / 30 x 30 (inch) 75 x 75 cm and / und Ad. of 20 / 20 x 24 (inch) 50 x 60 cm.

4 Boeing 757 landing at Zurich International Airport, Kloten, August 25, 1994

4 Boeing 757 landing at Zurich International Airport, Kloten, August 25, 1994
All images are analog and are printed on silver bromide archival black and white photographic paper.
Ad. of 10 / 30 x 30 (inch) 75 x 75 cm and / und Ad. of 20 / 20 x 24 (inch) 50 x 60 cm.

4 Boeing 757 landing at Zurich International Airport, Kloten, August 25, 1994

4 Boeing 757 landing at Zurich International Airport, Kloten, August 25, 1994
All images are analog and are printed on silver bromide archival black and white photographic paper.
Ad. of 10 / 30 x 30 (inch) 75 x 75 cm and / und Ad. of 20 / 20 x 24 (inch) 50 x 60 cm.