Glass Abstract 790

This is a macro photograph of a glass brick in a building on Bennett Avenue, Washington Heights, New York. The glass of the brick is clear and all... more

by Sarah Loft

Title

Glass Abstract 790

Artist

Sarah Loft

Medium

Photograph - Photograph With Digital Enhancement

Description

This is a macro photograph of a glass brick in a building on Bennett Avenue, Washington Heights, New York. The glass of the brick is clear and all the color in the photo is due to reflections and lights and objects inside the building.

Per Wikipedia: Glass brick, also known as glass block, is an architectural element made from glass. Glass bricks provide visual obscuration while admitting light. The glass block was originally developed in the early 1900s to provide natural light in manufacturing plants.

Glass bricks are produced for both wall and floor applications. Glass blocks for use in floors are normally manufactured as a single solid piece, or as a hollow glass block with thicker side walls than the standard wall blocks. These blocks are normally cast into a reinforced concrete gridwork or set into a metal frame, allowing multiple units to be combined to span over openings in basements and roofs. Glass wall blocks should not be used in flooring applications. Hollow glass wall blocks are manufactured as two separate halves and, whilst the glass is still molten, the two pieces are pressed together and annealed. The resulting glass blocks will have a partial vacuum at the hollow center.

Per Wikipedia: Abstract photography, sometimes called non-objective, experimental, conceptual or concrete photography, is a means of depicting a visual image that does not have an immediate association with the object world and that has been created through the use of photographic equipment, processes or materials. An abstract photograph may isolate a fragment of a natural scene in order to remove its inherent context from the viewer, it may be purposely staged to create a seemingly unreal appearance from real objects, or it may involve the use of color, light, shadow, texture, shape and/or form to convey a feeling, sensation or impression. The image may be produced using traditional photographic equipment like a camera, darkroom or computer, or it may be created without using a camera by directly manipulating film, paper or other photographic media, including digital presentations.

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Featured in the Arts Fantastic World group, September 2017.

Featured in the USA Photographers ONLY group, September 2017.

Featured in the Strictly Neon group, June 2018.

Featured in the Abstract Moods group, December 2018.

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September 4th, 2017