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Eiffel Tower
28" x 28" Fine Art Print
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Nautica No1
28" x 28" Fine Art Print
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Nautica No2
28" x 28" Fine Art Print
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Nautica No3
28" x 28" Fine Art Print
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Nautica No4
28" x 28" Fine Art Print
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Harbor Garden Gates
28" x 28" Fine Art Print
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Piazza San Marco Vista
28" x 28" Fine Art Print
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San Giorgio Maggiore Duomo
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Amalfi Coastal Villas
28" x 28" Fine Art Print
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Aquatic 2
28" x 28" Fine Art Print
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Aquatic 1
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Giardino Vista Varenna
28" x 28" Fine Art Print
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Arches with Campanile Vista
28" x 28" Fine Art Print
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Campanile Vista with Gondolas
28" x 28" Fine Art Print
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Enoteca, Toscana
28" x 28" Fine Art Print
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Lakeside Portal Promenade
28" x 28" Fine Art Print
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Liguria Bicycle
28" x 28" Fine Art Print
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Rialto Bridge Gondolas
28" x 28" Fine Art Print
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Sunrise Harbor Vista
28" x 28" Fine Art Print
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Tuscan Fatorria Strada No. 1
28" x 28" Fine Art Print
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Tuscan Fatorria Strada No. 2
28" x 28" Fine Art Print
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Villa Balbiano No. 3
28" x 28" Fine Art Print
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French Jardin No. 14
28" x 28" Fine Art Print
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French Jardin No. 27
28" x 28" Fine Art Print
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French Jardin No. 31
28" x 28" Fine Art Print
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Italia Gardens No. 12
28" x 28" Fine Art Print
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Canal Espresso Bar Guiseppi
28" x 28" Fine Art Print
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Panificio Rosi
28" x 28" Fine Art Print
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Piccolo Ponte
28" x 28" Fine Art Print
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Ponte Rialto con Gondolas
28" x 28" Fine Art Print
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Venetian Bicicletta #1
28" x 28" Fine Art Print
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French Jardin No. 9
28" x 28" 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.