Bergdorf Goodman Windows,
Manhattan, New York;
July 17, 2008
Archive of past window displays.
Bergdorf changed out their south and east windows last Thursday but I’m just now posting them. Sorry for the delay but it has been s0o0o0o0o incredibly humid here in the city that I couldn’t bring myself to leave the air conditioning. I finally did but man, was it miserable.
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The blue artwork in the east windows is a series called “Sun Prints” by Brett Day Windham. Basically, they are a type of cyanotype. Construction paper or some other sort of paper is treated with a solution of potassium ferricyanide and ferric ammonium citrate. Objects are then placed on the treated paper, exposed to UV light (such as the the sun), and then rinsed with plain water. The paper will turn blue and the object will show up as negative space.
But this series has a lot of intricate pieces and some very large proportions and so, I’m guessing that negatives were used instead of the actual products.
UPDATE: I came across a great site called bobblebee which had a posting showing this artist’s work in a set of BG windows last november.
