Bridge Over Brooklyn

Description

New York-based artist Lothar Osterburg’s Bridge over Brooklyn is a much more nostalgic image than Craig McPherson’s haunting mezzotint of New York City, Yankee Stadium at Night. Osterburg began by building a miniature model, which he photographed through a magnifying lens. By etching this negative onto the printing plate using the 19th-century method of photogravure, he created this highly tonal image. Despite their differing, yet equally labor-intensive and retrospective intaglio processes, Osterburg and McPherson arrive at a similar place through their shared emphasis on palpable texture, the contrast between light and shade, and the powerful darkness of the city at night.

Bridge Over Brooklyn

Lothar Osterburg

2007

Accession Number

194769

Medium

Photogravure in black on white wove paper

Dimensions

47.9 × 61.2 cm (18 7/8 × 24 1/8 in.)

Classification

print

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Purchased with funds provided by Robert Hixon Glore