{"title":"George Segal","description":"\u003cp\u003eGeorge Segal (1924–2000, New York) was an American sculptor and photographer whose practice from the late 1950s onwards developed a distinctive figurative language rooted in the everyday environments of American life. Working initially as a painter, Segal turned to sculpture in the early 1960s, producing life-size plaster casts of human figures placed within real objects and environments — bus stops, diners, cinema lobbies — to create works of quiet, existential intensity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis casting process, which involved wrapping live models in plaster-soaked bandages, produced figures of raw, unfinished whiteness that stood in deliberate contrast to the polished surfaces of mainstream sculpture. Works such as \u003cem\u003eThe Bus Driver\u003c\/em\u003e (1962) and \u003cem\u003eThe Diner\u003c\/em\u003e (1964–66) established Segal as a major figure in American Pop Art and New Realism, though his work consistently resisted the ironic detachment associated with those movements in favour of a more melancholic humanism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSegal’s participation in \u003cem\u003ePhotonotations\u003c\/em\u003e (Rosa Esman Gallery, 1976) — for which he also provided the cover photograph, a silhouetted figure working across an illuminated theatre marquee — reflects his sustained engagement with photography as both documentary tool and artistic medium. His work is held in major collections internationally, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"photonotations-rosa-esman-gallery-new-york-1976","title":"ARMAN, MEL BOCHNER, SOL LEWITT, ROBERT MANGOLD, SYLVIA MANGOLD, HOWARDENA PINDELL, DOROTHEA ROCKBURNE, GEORGE SEGAL, ROBERT SMITHSON, TOM WESSELMANN et al. — Photonotations. Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, 1976","description":"\u003cp\u003eRosa Esman Gallery, 29 West 57th Street, New York, 4–28 May 1976. Original exhibition invitation. Offset-printed card, 14 × 9 cm. Colour photograph to recto; exhibition information to verso. Photograph by George Segal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCondition: Good. General age toning, scattered spotting, minor corner and edge wear, and light surface marks consistent with circulation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePhotonotations\u003c\/em\u003e assembled photographs by artists working across sculpture, painting, Minimalism and Conceptual art, including Arman, Bochner, LeWitt, the Mangolds, Pindell, Rockburne, Segal and Smithson. The exhibition belongs to a period in which the camera was increasingly used by artists not simply to produce photographs, but to document temporary actions, stage propositions and carry broader artistic ideas. Rosa Esman Gallery returned to the subject with \u003cem\u003ePhotonotations II\u003c\/em\u003e the following year.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSegal’s image already performs the title: a figure works across an illuminated theatre marquee, interrupting its letters and leaving the message temporarily unreadable. On the reverse, the participating artists are converted into another notation — a tightly printed roster concluding simply with “and others.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe photograph becomes announcement, the artists become a list, and the exhibition travels as a card.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShips flat, securely card-backed and tracked from the UK.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rosa Esman Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54008737497426,"sku":"SEGAL-ROSAMESMAN-INV-1976","price":125.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Arman_Bochner_Juszczyk_LeWitt_R.Mangold_S.Mangold_Pindell_Pozzi_Rockburne_Sanderson_Segal_Smithson_Wesselmann_Zuyderland._Show_invite_photonotions_._1976.jpg?v=1784137093"}],"url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/george-segal.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}