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    Matt Blaze@federate.social to Photography@fedia.io · 4 months ago

    Midtown, NYC, 2022

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    Matt Blaze@federate.social to Photography@fedia.io · 4 months ago
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    Midtown, NYC, 2022

    All the pixels, none of the high rents, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/51893928686

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      This image plays with the boundaries between realism and more abstract schools like Precisionism and Cubism. While it’s a realistic image in the strict sense that it’s a straight, basically unaltered photograph of buildings, it deliberately omits elements that might distract from the abstract lines and and shapes that make them up. The black sky (aided by the IR exposure) and harsh, almost threatening diagonal shadows add to the unreal feeling.

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        This photo was particularly influenced by two O’Keeffe paintings from her time in NYC, almost a century ago (during her Precisionist period). She lived (with Alfred Stieglitz) in the building at the left edge (the former Shelton Hotel).

        See
        https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/manhattan-34289

        and also
        https://collections.artsmia.org/art/2725/city-night-georgia-okeeffe

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        @mattblaze@federate.social those creeping shadows are definitely menacing. Great photo

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