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   Matt Blaze (mattblaze@federate.social)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2023 12:32:10 JST Matt Blaze

   Vestigial Catenary Wires, Philadelphia, PA, 2005.

   More pixels at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/2155416560/

   #photography

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     Eaton (eaton@phire.place)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2023 12:32:05 JST Eaton

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     @mattblaze @roland That's fascinating — the precisionists and Strand's work in particular were big influences on me right around the time we were launching Autogram, and continue to shape how I see our responsibility in the software process.

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     Matt Blaze (mattblaze@federate.social)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2023 12:32:06 JST Matt Blaze

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     Precisionism, a roughly century-old American art movement related to cubism, is one of my chief influences. Its practitioners included Joseph Stella, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Charles Demuth. Paul Strand was probably the most prominent precisionist photographer. Precisionism is concerned with structure and geometry as well as the relationship between humans, machines, and the industrial landscape.

     I'm interested in how the precisionists might have interpreted today's world.

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     Matt Blaze (mattblaze@federate.social)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2023 12:32:07 JST Matt Blaze

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     These pylons and (de-electrified) wires run along the former Pennsylvania Railroad "high line" in west Philly.

     This image is my contemporary interpretation of Ralston Crawfords "Electrification" painting; see https://hirshhorn.si.edu//collection/artwork/?edanUrl=edanmdm:hmsg_72.75

     This was shot on Polaroid 55 (with a Sinar P camera) and scanned.

     Eaton repeated this.
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     Tim Carmody (tim@phire.place)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2023 12:44:35 JST Tim Carmody

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     @eaton @mattblaze @roland Part of my dissertation is on the relationship between Strand's photography, war photojournalism, Objectivist poetry, and Italian neorealism