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Ponte Rialto di Notte
31" x 31" Fine Art Print
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Villa Contarini, Lecco
31" x 31" Fine Art Print
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Courtyard in Burgos
31" x 31" Fine Art Print
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Price: $374.99
Courtyard In Venezia
31" x 31" Fine Art Print
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Price: $374.99
Jardin del Ronda
27" x 27" Fine Art Print
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Price: $243.99
Varenna, Lago di Como
31" x 31" Fine Art Print
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Price: $374.99
French Jardin No. 9
27" x 27" Fine Art Print
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Price: $243.99
Coastal Oak Series No. 1
20" x 27" Fine Art Print
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Price: $207.99
Cafe, Aix-en-Provence
31" x 31" Fine Art Print
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Price: $374.99
Andrea Pansa, Amalfi
31" x 31" Fine Art Print
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Coastal Oak Series No. 41
31" x 23" Fine Art Print
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Price: $241.99
Ponti di Venezia No. 1
31" x 31" Fine Art Print
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Venetian Canale #8
23" x 31" Fine Art Print
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Price: $241.99
Art Deco Lamposts #3
31" x 23" Fine Art Print
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Brooklyn Bridge at Dawn
31" x 23" Fine Art Print
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Price: $241.99
Cafe de Flore
31" x 31" Fine Art Print
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Price: $374.99
Campanile Vista with Gondolas
31" x 31" Fine Art Print
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Crescent Beach Shells 1
25" x 19" Fine Art Print
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Price: $181.99
Crescent Beach Shells 2
25" x 19" Fine Art Print
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Crescent Beach Shells 2
31" x 23" Fine Art Print
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Price: $241.99
Crescent Beach Shells 3
25" x 19" Fine Art Print
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Price: $181.99
Crescent Beach Shells 4
31" x 23" Fine Art Print
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Price: $241.99
Enoteca, Toscana
31" x 31" Fine Art Print
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Price: $374.99
Firenze Bicycle
31" x 31" Fine Art Print
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Galliera Veneta, Padova
31" x 31" Fine Art Print
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Giardini Ornamentale
31" x 31" Fine Art Print
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Giardini Portico
31" x 31" Fine Art Print
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Giardino Mortola
31" x 31" Fine Art Print
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Golden Gate Bridge II
31" x 15" Fine Art Print
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Price: $181.99
Il Gran Canale di Notte
31" x 31" Fine Art Print
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Price: $374.99
Island Oak Trees
25" x 19" Fine Art Print
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Price: $181.99
Jardin del Rey Moro
27" x 27" Fine Art Print
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Price: $243.99
Jardin Portique No. 1
31" x 31" Fine Art Print
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Price: $374.99
Jardin Portique No. 2
31" x 31" Fine Art Print
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Lakeside Portal Promenade
31" x 31" Fine Art Print
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Price: $374.99
Lakeside Urns
31" x 15" Fine Art Print
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Price: $181.99
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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.