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Cafe de France
20" x 44" Fine Art Print
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Poplar Trees
20" x 44" Fine Art Print
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Portico, Ravello
20" x 38" Fine Art Print
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Antico Cantina, Vin Santo
20" x 26" Fine Art Print
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Cafe la Nuit
20" x 44" Fine Art Print
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Gelateria, Varenna
20" x 44" Fine Art Print
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Jardin Botanico
20" x 44" Fine Art Print
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La Porta Via, Cortona
20" x 44" Fine Art Print
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La Strada, Portofino
20" x 38" Fine Art Print
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Palacio de Valdespino
20" x 44" Fine Art Print
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Paseo del Espolon, Salamanca
20" x 44" Fine Art Print
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Piazza San Marco No. 1
20" x 41" Fine Art Print
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Piazza San Marco No. 2
20" x 41" Fine Art Print
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Portico Vista
20" x 44" Fine Art Print
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Portico, Umbria
20" x 44" Fine Art Print
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Al Teatro Cafe, Venezia
20" x 26" Fine Art Print
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Grande Canal Vista At Dusk #1
24" x 32" Fine Art Print
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Venezia Canale #1
20" x 26" Fine Art Print
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Monterosso Sunrise #1
24" x 32" Fine Art Print
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Monterosso Sunrise #2
24" x 32" Fine Art Print
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Venetian Canale #8
24" x 32" Fine Art Print
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Arcos de la Frontera
20" x 44" Fine Art Print
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Caffe, Amalfi
20" x 26" Fine Art Print
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Casa de Ovandos
20" x 44" Fine Art Print
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Chestnut Tree
20" x 44" Fine Art Print
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La Porta Via, Volterra
20" x 44" Fine Art Print
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Les Colonnes I
20" x 44" Fine Art Print
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Les Colonnes II
20" x 44" Fine Art Print
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Nautical Illuminations No.2
24" x 28" Fine Art Print
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Nautical Illuminations No.3
24" x 28" Fine Art Print
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Paseo de Canovas, Caceras
20" x 44" Fine Art Print
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Pont de Chinon
20" x 38" Fine Art Print
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Bridge Of Sighs #1
24" x 32" Fine Art Print
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Scala Contarini del Bovolo #2
24" x 32" Fine Art Print
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Sunrise Atrani #4
24" x 32" Fine Art Print
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Eiffel Tower and Carousel I
24" x 32" Fine Art Print
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Alan Blaustein is a photographer with a singular focus.
For the past twelve years, he has worked on a photographic series of public benches and their surroundings. His images evoke a contemplative mood, a sense of tranquillity and timelessness, while the benches themselves suggest community and social interaction. He has traveled extensively in the United States and Europe in search of the right settings. He says taking pictures of benches is easier in Europe than in America. In Europe, "the bench materials are more sculpted, more ornate. And you'll find a church from the 15th century in the background. In America, everything seems so new."
His original photographs are printed on watercolor paper using processes dating from the late 1800s, and are often painstakingly hand-tinted with watercolor pigments which offer much more subtlety and diversity than standard photographic dyes. This process has translated well to the poster format, giving them an antique feel.
Blaustein's first job was as an art director for Bloomingdale's in New York. Eventually, Bloomingdale's published a book of his photographs. He holds MFA and BFA degrees in photography and film from the Academy of Art College in San Francisco, California where he is an instructor, and the Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York. His work has been exhibited throughout the United States, including in the San Francisco International Airport. Chronicle Books of San Francisco has also published his bench photographs in a 1996 calendar.