Carmel Vitullo Limited Edition Photograph Print "A Room with a View"

Item Details

Carmel Vitullo (American; b. 1925)
A Room with a View
Digital scan of original 1966 negative
Titled and numbered 2/20 to photo verso
Signed to photo verso
8.75’ W x 13.5’ H

A limited edition photograph print titled A Room with a View by American photographer Carmel Vitullo (b. 1925). Featured in the exhibition Italian Sojourn 1966 at Bert Gallery, this archival print was made from a digital scan of the original 1966 negative. The photographer captures an elevated view of a Venetian canal populated with a couple locals floating down the water in gondolas. The work is signed, titled, and numbered 2 out of an edition of 20 to the verso of the photo. It is presented under glass with white matting, and housed in a black composite frame. A descriptive label from Bert Gallery is adhered 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

- adhesive residue present to lower right area of glass; minor scratches scattered throughout frame.

Dimensions

- measurement of frame; visible image measures approximately 8.75" W x 13.5" H.

Item #

18DCC299-023