Neil Maurer
American, born 1941
Rooftop Air Conditioner
INV-1192
Neil Maurer
American, born 19411975
Rooftop Air Conditioner
Neil Maurer American, born 1941 →gelatin silver (developing-out-paper) prphotographic process
Date
1975
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
Image/paper: 18.8 × 18.9 cm (7 7/16 × 7 1/2 in.); Mount: 43.2 × 35.6 cm (17 1/16 × 14 1/16 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Gift of David and Reva Logan
Born in New York City, Neil Maurer worked as a reporter and writer before turning his focus to photography in 1969, earning a Masters of Fine Arts in photography from the Rhode Island School of Design under Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind in 1975. In this work made around the time of his graduation, we see the influence of Minimalism—the rooftop air conditioner presented almost like a Donald Judd sculpture—as well as a related interest in the spare, “man-altered landscape” brought into focus by the New Topographics exhibition at the George Eastman House the same year.
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