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Modern Ruins

PHILLIP BUEHLER | DOCUMENTING MODERN RUINS SINCE 1973 | SHARING ONLINE SINCE 1995

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Airplane Graveyard

Outside Tuscon, Arizona in the Sonora Desert is AMARC, the Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center. Here the U.S. Air Force mothballs planes until they either need them again or it’s time to salvage them for parts. Whenever the U.S. sells surplus planes to foreign governments part of the sales pitch is that there will always have a ready supply of spare parts. Some are turned into pilotless drones and used for missile target practice.

There are about 4,000 planes in storage, most now from the Vietnam era. I only wish I’d been able to go in the 60’s when there were still planes from World War II there. You can also see the photographs I shot of AMARC in 1999.

I’ve been collecting the stories people have sent. Here are a few:

“Every pilot I have ever talked to wants to visit but never does. It’s kind of like an elephant graveyard, mysterious, exciting, a place where all kids dreams go. I think that’s why not many of the pilots I’ve talked to have ever really tried to visit. I saw a documentary on the aircraft graveyard. They showed a part where they cut up the B-52’s, all my pilot buddies were silent, I think if each of them were alone, they would have been crying.”

“It shows the incredible creativity as well as the incredible destruction man is capable of.”

When you’re finished looking at these photos you can find out about tours of the boneyard given by the Pima Air Museum at the official AMARC homepage.

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Airplane Graveyard

Cape Canaveral

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Cape Canaveral

Fort Slocum, Davids Island, NY

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Fort Slocum, Davids Island, NY

Ellis Island

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Ellis Island

Hahn Airbase, Germany

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Hahn Airbase, Germany

Greystone Park – One Last Look

My final trip to Woody Guthrie’s “Wardy Forty,” just one week ahead of the wrecking ball. Continue reading →

Greystone Park – One Last Look

1964/65 NY World’s Fair

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1964/65 NY World’s Fair

Titan II Missile Silo, Tucson

In the Sonoran desert outside Tucson is the remnants of a Titan II missile silo. Someone scrapped off the dirt and got down to the shell, but couldn’t get in. Continue reading →

Titan II Missile Silo, Tucson

Greystone Park Hospital, NJ

Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital was abandoned in the 1970s with the deinstitutionalization of patients. It is where Bob Dylan first met Woody Guthrie, and the topic of my book, “Woody Guthrie’s Wardy Forty: Greystone Park Hospital Revisited.” Continue reading →

Greystone Park Hospital, NJ

S.S. United States

I’ve been documenting the ship since 1999, with about 40 photographs on this website. Many of the then/now composites were featured in the recent PBS documentary, SS United States, Lady in Waiting. I’m hoping to add more soon. Continue reading →

S.S. United States

Asbury Park

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Asbury Park

U-Boat Bunker

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U-Boat Bunker

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Artworks
Re:Generation Tulsa 1921–2021 For the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre I installed four large panoramic photo murals taken in 1921 onto the exterior walls of Paradise Baptist Church in the Greenwood section of Tulsa. The church was burned down in 1921 and appears in two of the panoramas.

Re:Generation Tulsa 1921–2021

The Wall of Lies, 2020 A public art exhibition showing the more than 20,000 lies Trump told while in office, as fact checked by the Washington Post. First installed in Bushwick, Brooklyn, with a second mural installed in SoHo Manhattan after the first one was defaced with Proud Boys graffiti.

The Wall of Lies, 2020

“Inside Ferguson,” 2015 A 360 degree, walk-in panoramic photo that lets people step into Ferguson and onto the spot where Michael Brown died.

“Inside Ferguson,” 2015

“In Lieu of Flowers,” 2009 An installation about the people who once worked at the now-demolished Westinghouse Plant in Newark.

“In Lieu of Flowers,” 2009

“Windows of the Soul,” 2008 An installation for the "Brainwaves" exhibit, curated by Suzanne Anker at Exit Art in New York in 2008.

“Windows of the Soul,” 2008

“Weird NJ: The Exhibition,” 2005 An exhibition I curated in 2005 with the publishers of Weird NJ magazine. It featured 15 artists that live in or are inspired by New Jersey.

“Weird NJ: The Exhibition,” 2005

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Installation, Re:Generation Tulsa 1921-2021

Posted on June 4th, 2021 by Phil Buehler

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Some photos from my installation on the Paradise Baptist Church for the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre. You can see visitors pointing out the burned out shell of the original Paradise Baptist Church, which is one of only three churches remaining in the Greenwood Section of Tulsa.

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RE-GENERATION Tulsa 1921-2021

Posted on May 25th, 2021 by Phil Buehler

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For the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre I’m installing four large panoramic photo murals taken in 1921 onto the exterior walls of Paradise Baptist Church in the Greenwood section of Tulsa. The church was burned down in 1921 and appears in two of the panoramas.

The opening will be on Sunday May 30th and be up until June 30th. Paradise Baptist Church is located at 507 E King St, Greenwood, Tulsa 74106.

Installation view, Paradise Baptist Church in a 1921 panoramic photograph taken after the Tulsa Race Massacre
1921 view of Paradise Baptist Church (full panoramic image, one of four in the installation)
2021 view of Paradise Baptist Church, taken from a drone flying over Sunset Hill

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The Wall of Lies

Posted on May 22nd, 2021 by Phil Buehler

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Photographs of the “Wall of Lies,” a 110-foot long, 10-foot tall outdoor mural with the 20,000+ lies told by Donald Trump while in office as documented and fact-checked by The Washington Post. It was first installed in Bushwick Brooklyn and then in SoHo Manhattan in the month prior to the 2020 Presidential Election.

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