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Midtown, NYC, 2022 (fedia.io)

submitted 1 month ago by mattblaze@federate.social to c/photography@fedia.io

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

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.

[–] 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.

[–] 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

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

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

[–] cigitalgem@sigmoid.social 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

@mattblaze@federate.social wow. this is excellent.

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

@cigitalgem@sigmoid.social Thank you!