WILLIAM CLIFT Reflection St Louis Courthouse icon

WILLIAM CLIFT Reflection St Louis Courthouse icon
WILLIAM CLIFT Reflection, Old St. Louis County Courthouse, St. Louis, Missouri, 1976, 13x16.25" Gelatin silver print ASG# WC2/1032 Mounted on 23x27" 2 ply white rag board signed on mount under print right.

In this Reflection of the St. Louis County Courthouse Clift has captured the spirit of the Bicentennial, modern abstract but also at the center of America where settlers ported from east to west, the crossroads of America. This was made for the Bicentennial County Courthouse project.

The Seagram County Court House Archives, a collection of more than 11,000 photographic negatives and 2,500 master prints, was presented as a gift, with its copyright ownership, to the Library of Congress in 1980 by Joseph E. Seagram and Sons, Inc. To mark the Bicentennial of the United States of America, Joseph E. Seagram and Sons, Inc. commissioned twenty-four photographers to record more than 1,100 county court houses using both color and black and white film. The project, directed by Phyllis Lambert and edited by Richard Pare, created the most comprehensive survey to date of a type of American building.
https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/coll/220_seagram.html

William Clift (b.Boston 1944) resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico). Clift started taking pictures at the age of ten, developing them in a darkroom. He took his first photography workshop with Paul Caponigro at fifteen, becoming the youngest member of the Association of Heliographers: a New York cooperative established by some of the most influential American art photographers of the 1960s, including Walter Chappell, Paul Caponigro, Marie Cosindas and Carl Chiarenza. Two of his primary subjects are Mt. St. Michel off the coast of Northern France and Shiprock in northeastern New Mexico.

https://www.gallery.ca/magazine/artists/an-interview-with-photographer-william-clift
Condition: Excellent. Minor wear