Kent Johnson Photography | New York City Art Deco Skyscrapers
An exhibition of Art Deco NYC Skyscrapers photographs by Kent Johnson.
Coral Coffee (Fable Cafe), 128 Darlinghurst Road Darlinghurst
From the 16th of April until the 28th of May 2025
1 Empire State Building, Sunset Glow
2 Trinity Churchyard, Nathan's Hot Dogs
3 Chrysler Building 42nd St Grand Central
4 Empire State Building & The Langham
5 Art Deco Chanin Building
6 General Electric Building Art Deco USA
7 The Chrysler, Stars & Stripes
8 Atlas Sculpture, Rockefeller Center
9 On Broadway, Neon Show Signs
10 Stars & Stripes, Empire State
11 The Chrysler & Socony–Mobil
12 Seagram Building. Mies van der Rohe
13 The Poster Show NYC
Open edition available at various sizes – archival pigment ink Giclée prints on 160GSM 'Poster' paper – unframed.
A4 $60 / A3 $125 / A2 $150 (Exhibited size) / A1 $220 / A0 $350 - Buy Prints - https://www.etsy.com/au/shop/KentsTravelPosters
To order custom fine art paper prints contact Kent on
61 (0) 433 796 863 kent@artcommunication.com.au
Venkman: I guess they just don't make them like they used to, huh?
Stantz: No! Nobody ever made them like this!
It's a line from the 1980s hit film Ghostbusters where the uniqueness of the city's skyscrapers is central to the plot. And yet for a while, for a few decades, they did make them like that. Iron beams with skein of brick reaching ever upward. Podium's with setbacks to allow the light to flow into the streets and then massive tall towers topped out with, whatever took your fancy. A pyramid, a Greek temple, St Mark's Campanile (no that was in the last show) column and frieze or maybe, something more in tune with the jazz age, an embossed skin of shining stainless steel, receding arches and triangles, a needle pointing up, up into the sky.
If the cathedrals of old seemed to defy gravity, then what new wonder was this? The Empire State Building was built in just one year and 45 days, the Chrysler, 20 months. Some European cathedrals took hundreds of years to complete.
These photographs focus on the booming 1920s the Art Deco Age, the French Building, 30 Rockefeller Plaza, 70 Pine Street, RCA Victor Building (in this show, the General Electric Building - though in my first work-up it was RCA), Irving Trust Company Building, 1 Wall Street, 120 Wall Street, The Chanin, The Chrysler and Empire State Buildings.
These pictures are photographs of the actual A2-size exhibition posters, with the exception of 'The Poster Show' which is from the print file.
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