Tankstelle [Gas Station]
Using a large-format camera and available artificial light, Faulhaber photographs newly constructed architectural spaces-shopping malls, nightclubs, factories, sports arenas, offices, and apartments-just after they have been completed. Unpopulated and bearing no traces of everyday use, the environments are pristine and eerily hermetic. This view of a brightly lit gas station at night, with its disorienting sense of scale and immaculate newness, might easily be mistaken for a computer-generated model in an architect's studio. Surprisingly, Faulhaber achieves this effect through traditional photographic means rather than digital manipulation. His photographs' saturated colors and cool formal elegance heighten the inorganic beauty of the modern built environment, offering a lush yet ominous vision of postindustrial alienation.
Artwork Details
- Title: Tankstelle [Gas Station]
- Artist: Julian Faulhaber (German, born 1975)
- Date: 2008
- Medium: Chromogenic print
- Dimensions: Image: 144.8 x 182.9 cm (57 x 72 in.)
Frame: 160 × 198.1 cm (63 × 78 in.), approx. - Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Purchase, Vital Projects Fund Inc. Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2008
- Object Number: 2008.444
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
More Artwork
A slider containing 5 items.
Press the down key to skip to the last item.
Press the down key to skip to the last item.
Julian Faulhaber
2007
Andreas Gursky
1994
Thomas Ruff
1987
Thomas Struth
1988
Thomas Struth
1995
Research Resources
The Met provides unparalleled resources for research and welcomes an international community of students and scholars. The Met's Open Access API is where creators and researchers can connect to the The Met collection. Open Access data and public domain images are available for unrestricted commercial and noncommercial use without permission or fee.
To request images under copyright and other restrictions, please use this Image Request form.
Feedback
We continue to research and examine historical and cultural context for objects in The Met collection. If you have comments or questions about this object record, please complete and submit this form. The Museum looks forward to receiving your comments.