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Island Tide Pool No. 5
35" x 19" Fine Art Print
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Meadow Oak Tree
31" x 15" Fine Art Print
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Price: $178.99
Coastal Oak Series No. 41
39" x 29" Fine Art Print
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Price: $387.99
Crescent Beach Shells 5
31" x 23" Fine Art Print
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Price: $238.99
Cafe Van Gogh
34" x 16" Fine Art Print
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Price: $206.99
Tranquil Pier
34" x 16" Fine Art Print
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Eiffel Tower Sunset
31" x 23" Fine Art Print
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Price: $238.99
Golden Gate Sunrise #2
39" x 29" Fine Art Print
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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: $238.99
Art Deco Lamposts #3
39" x 29" Fine Art Print
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Price: $387.99
Bridge Illuminated
34" x 16" Fine Art Print
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Brooklyn Bridge at Dawn
39" x 29" Fine Art Print
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Cafe de Flore
31" x 23" Fine Art Print
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Price: $238.99
Coastal Trail
34" x 16" Fine Art Print
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Price: $206.99
Crescent Beach Calm 1
31" x 23" Fine Art Print
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Price: $238.99
Crescent Beach Calm 2
39" x 29" Fine Art Print
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Price: $387.99
Crescent Beach Calm 3
39" x 29" Fine Art Print
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Crescent Beach Calm 4
31" x 23" Fine Art Print
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Price: $238.99
Crescent Beach Shells 1
31" x 23" Fine Art Print
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Price: $238.99
Crescent Beach Shells 10
39" x 29" Fine Art Print
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Price: $387.99
Crescent Beach Shells 11
31" x 23" Fine Art Print
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Price: $238.99
Crescent Beach Shells 15
31" x 23" Fine Art Print
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Price: $238.99
Crescent Beach Shells 15
39" x 29" Fine Art Print
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Price: $387.99
Crescent Beach Shells 16
39" x 29" Fine Art Print
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Price: $387.99
Crescent Beach Shells 2
31" x 23" Fine Art Print
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Price: $238.99
Crescent Beach Shells 2
39" x 29" Fine Art Print
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Price: $387.99
Crescent Beach Shells 3
31" x 23" Fine Art Print
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Price: $238.99
Crescent Beach Shells 4
39" x 29" Fine Art Print
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Price: $387.99
Crescent Beach Shells 6
31" x 23" Fine Art Print
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Price: $238.99
Crescent Beach Shells 7
39" x 29" Fine Art Print
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Price: $387.99
Crescent Beach Shells 8
31" x 23" Fine Art Print
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Price: $238.99
Crescent Beach Shells 9
31" x 23" Fine Art Print
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Price: $238.99
Crescent Beach Waves 1
31" x 23" Fine Art Print
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Price: $238.99
Crescent Beach Waves 2
31" x 23" Fine Art Print
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Crescent Beach Waves 3
31" x 23" 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.