Carmel Vitullo Limited Edition Photograph Print "Ella Fitzgerald"

Item Details

Carmel Vitullo (American; b. 1925)
Ella Fitzgerald
Digital scan of original 1958 negative
Titled and numbered 1/20 to photo verso
Signed to photo verso
Inscribed to mat verso
13.25’ W x 8.75’ H

A limited edition photograph print titled Ella Fitzgerald from the Newport Jazz series by American photographer Carmel Vitullo (b. 1925). This archival print was made from a digital scan of the original 1958 negative. It is signed, titled, and numbered 1 out of an edition of 20 to the verso of the photo. With a slightly blurred focus, the photographer captures a truncated fleeting moment of the iconic jazz vocalist singing on stage at the Newport Jazz Festival. The work is presented between two layers of white matting and remains unframed. It is inscribed to the mat verso and a descriptive label from Bert Gallery is adhered to the photo 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

- very minor wear to mat edges.

Dimensions

- measurement of mat; visible image measures approximately 13.25" W x 8.75" H.

Item #

18DCC299-002