Ray's Pizza
Inscription:
ROBERT FARBER
Ray's Pizza
NYC 1989
This photograph was taken on East 14th Street in New York City, where Julian’s Billiards had been a neighborhood landmark for years.
I had also used this location in other work, including fashion editorial and advertising images, among them photographs I shot for my German client Loden Frey. It was one of those very New York locations that had character built into it.
What makes this image especially meaningful to me is that it captures details of a city that was already beginning to disappear. Soon after I photographed it, that whole stretch of buildings was torn down.
For anyone who knows New York, the scene says a lot, the old delivery bicycle parked outside, Ray’s Pizza painted on the side, and even the telephone number without an area code, from a time before that became necessary. It’s a small, quiet piece of old New York that now feels even more like history.
I later included the image in my book American Mood, published in 2004, and it has been available as a gallery limited edition since then. Now I’m able to share it here for the first time as an art poster, making it accessible to more collectors.
Paper size:
16.8 x 22 in (42.6 x 55.9 cm)
Edition:
Open Edition
Certified with the Farber Studio blind embossed seal. Includes an Authentication Label issued by RDO Editions.
Printed using archival pigment printing on museum-quality fine art paper by Legion/Moab, following the same production standards used for Farber’s museum and gallery prints. Produced from the Robert Farber photographic archive original files.
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