Gail Albert Halaban, photo of Peter Daverington’s Bald Eagle, Audubon Mural Project. Photo courtesy of Aperture.
PETER DAVERINGTON's painting of a bald eagle on a shopfront in uptown Manhattan has been documented in a new photographic project by Gail Albert Halaban.
The Audubon Mural Project commissioned a spectrum of artists to create murals of imperilled birds, with each mural loosely based on the watercolours of John James Audubon, the pioneering 19th century ornithologist. Today, more than 100 bodegas, barbershops & other businesses in Harlem & Washington Heights are home to large-scale paintings of North American birds endangered by global warming.
The murals, like the birds they depict, are threatened by changing weather conditions and will soon begin to fade or disappear. Gail Albert Halaban has captured the paintings within the context of the community, before they are worn away.