Carmel Vitullo Limited Edition Photograph Print "Resting"

Item Details

Carmel Vitullo (American; b. 1925)
Resting
Digital scan of original 1960s negative
Titled and numbered 1/20 to photo verso
Signed to photo verso
13.5’ W x 9’ H.

A limited edition photograph print titled Resting by American photographer Carmel Vitullo (b. 1925). From the artist’s 1960s Oakland Beach, Rhode Island series featured in Bert Gallery’s 2009 exhibition Documenting a Moment, a Place, an Era, this archival print was made from a digital scan of the original 1960s negative. Picturing a middle-aged man and woman sleeping in the front and back seats of a car, this photograph features the artist’s interest in capturing a sense of belonging and genuine humanity in her local subjects. The work is signed, titled, and numbered 1 out of an edition of 20 to the photo verso; it is also marked by Bert Gallery to the photo verso. Presented between two layers of white matting, the work remains unframed. A descriptive label and a stamp from Bert Gallery are present to the mat verso.

Carmel Vitullo was raised in Federal Hill, a small Italian community of Rhode Island. After studying painting at the Rhode Island School of Design, she pursued photography at the New York Institute of Photography. Particularly inspired by the work of Henri Cartier-Bresson, she adopted a snapshot, documentary aesthetic photographing various neighborhoods, communities, and people, including jazz icons Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald. Vitullo describes her work as ‘street photography,’ capturing the vernacular beauty in the fleeting moments and local subjects of the 1950s and 60s urban landscape. Vitullo’s debut was in The Family of Man exhibition by the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in 1955. Her work has also been represented by the RISD Museum, the Bert Gallery, the Newport Art Museum, and the Block Island Historical Society, among other institutions.

Condition

- minor wear to mat edges from previous display.

Dimensions

- measurement of mat; image size measures approximately 13.5" W x 9" H.

Item #

18DCC299-012