Midtown, NYC, 2022.

Too many pixels and not enough colors 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 far left.

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

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

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