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Cafe, Aix-en-Provence
35" x 35" Fine Art Print
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Aquatic 2
35" x 35" Fine Art Print
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Seaglass 3
29" x 35" Fine Art Print
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Coastal Oak Series No. 1
25" x 35" Fine Art Print
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Price: $361.99
Coastal Oak Series No. 41
37" x 27" Fine Art Print
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Aquatic 1
35" x 35" Fine Art Print
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Giardino Vista Varenna
35" x 35" Fine Art Print
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Positano Vista
35" x 35" Fine Art Print
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Venetian Canale #20
25" x 35" Fine Art Print
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Andrea Pansa, Amalfi
35" x 35" Fine Art Print
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Cafe Van Gogh
34" x 16" Fine Art Print
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Cernobbio Vista
35" x 35" Fine Art Print
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City Street Ride
35" x 35" Fine Art Print
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Meadow Oak Tree
31" x 15" Fine Art Print
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Ponte Rialto di Notte
35" x 35" Fine Art Print
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Poplar Trees
16" x 34" Fine Art Print
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Price: $274.99
Portico, Ravello
18" x 34" Fine Art Print
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Tranquil Pier
34" x 16" Fine Art Print
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Villa Contarini, Lecco
35" x 35" Fine Art Print
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Eiffel Tower Sunset
31" x 23" Fine Art Print
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Atlantis 1
35" x 35" Fine Art Print
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Atlantis 3
35" x 35" Fine Art Print
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Crescent Beach Shells 5
31" x 23" Fine Art Print
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La Mer 3
35" x 35" Fine Art Print
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Ponti di Venezia No. 1
35" x 35" Fine Art Print
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Seaglass 4
29" x 35" Fine Art Print
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Venezia Canale #1
25" x 35" Fine Art Print
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Monterosso Sunrise #1
25" x 35" Fine Art Print
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Monterosso Sunrise #2
25" x 35" Fine Art Print
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Venetian Canale #8
25" x 35" Fine Art Print
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Golden Gate Sunrise #2
37" x 27" Fine Art Print
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Island Tide Pool No. 5
35" x 19" Fine Art Print
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Price: $305.99
Andalusian Sun Flowers
34" x 16" Fine Art Print
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Antico Cantina, Toscana
31" x 23" Fine Art Print
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Price: $315.99
Antico Cantina, Vin Santo
25" x 35" Fine Art Print
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Arches with Campanile Vista
35" x 35" 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.