Picnic Allée
Massimo Vitali's *Picnic Allée* is a large-scale, four-panel chromogenic print work mounted using the Diasec process, which fuses the photographic surface to acrylic glass for exceptional clarity and depth. The work exemplifies Vitali's signature approach of documenting contemporary leisure culture, capturing crowds of people gathered in a tree-lined allée in a sweeping, panoramic perspective. Printed later from the original negative, the piece reflects Vitali's ongoing exploration of collective human behavior within shared public and natural spaces.
- Medium
- Four chromogenic prints, Diasec mounted, printed later.
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
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Photographs
April 4, 2017
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Andreas Gursky
German · b. 1955
Gursky similarly creates large scale chromogenic prints depicting crowds of people engaged in leisure and social activities, using a high vantage point to achieve sweeping panoramic views that emphasize collective human behavior over individual identity.
Martin Parr
British · b. 1952
Parr shares Vitali's sustained documentary focus on contemporary leisure culture and social gatherings in outdoor settings, capturing the rituals and behaviors of crowds in public spaces with an anthropological yet visually compelling eye.
Harry Gruyaert
Belgian · b. 1941
Gruyaert produces richly colored large format photographs of people gathered in outdoor landscapes and public spaces, with a similar attention to lush greens and serene figurative compositions that evoke collective leisure and social atmosphere.
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