this post was submitted on 02 Mar 2025
13 points (100.0% liked)

Photography

0 readers
86 users here now

All things photography. Share your own original photos, your questions, your inspiration.

Rules

Share your own original photography. No NSFW images. Be Nice.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Midtown, NYC, 2022

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

#photography

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] mattblaze@federate.social 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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.

[–] CaraBruar@sfba.social 1 points 1 month ago

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

[–] mattblaze@federate.social 1 points 1 month ago

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