Carmel Vitullo Limited Edition Photograph Print "Mid-day Harbor"

Item Details

Carmel Vitullo (American; b. 1925)
Mid-day Harbor
Digital scan of original 1960s negative
Signed to lower right edge of mat
11.75’ W x 8’ H

A limited edition photograph print titled Mid-day Harbor by American photographer Carmel Vitullo (b. 1925). From the artist’s 1960s Block Island, Rhode Island series, this archival print was made from a digital scan of the original 1960s negative. The work is signed by hand in graphite to the lower right edge of the mat. Presented under glass with white matting, it is housed in a black composite wood frame. A handwritten descriptive label and a frame label are present to the 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 scratches throughout frame.

Dimensions

- measurement of frame; visible image measures approximately 11.75" W x 8" H.

Item #

18DCC299-017