Midtown, NYC, 2022.
All the pixels, none of the vertigo, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/51893928686
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This was captured early afternoon on a clear day with a Rodenstock HR Digaron-W 50mm/4.0 (@ f/7.1) lens, Phase One IQ4 150 Achromatic Back (@ ISO 200) and Phase One XT camera (10mm vertical shift). 760nm IR filter, which effectively blackened the sky.
This is an abstract view of modern midtown skyscrapers, as perhaps Georgia O’Keeffe might have seen them. The composition is a nod to the Precisionist school of a century earlier, emphasizing the lines and essential geometry of the buildings.
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.
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).
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@mattblaze@federate.social I did not know of her Precisionist period despite 5 years of art school… this will be a delightful rabbit hole 🕳️
@jacquiharper@mastodon.world This was an amazing exhibit (I went out there just to see it).
@wtrmt@mastodon.social I love that. (Also reminds me of a lot of my father’s work from around that time). Eg
@mattblaze@federate.social @wtrmt@mastodon.social Oooh, that’s pretty.
@mattblaze@federate.social @wtrmt@mastodon.social
I really like that as well!@mattblaze@federate.social @wtrmt@mastodon.social every time I see your dad’s work I love it. Still want some…
@noplasticshower@infosec.exchange @wtrmt@mastodon.social I’ll leave you some in my will.
@noplasticshower@infosec.exchange @wtrmt@mastodon.social Though that does create some bad incentives.
@mattblaze@federate.social You always have the most greys in one image 🤩
@jacquiharper@mastodon.world All colors are equally represented!
@mattblaze@federate.social This is almost so abstract as to be inhuman… but… that table lamp in the second window down on the right…! 😍
