Broadway Reflections Photography Print | Colorful New York City Abstract

This Broadway photography print features theater advertisements and architecture distorted across a mirrored Manhattan facade. Photographed in New York City in 2011, the bending panels turn recognizable street fragments into colorful abstract wall art.

At first glance, the building almost disappears. What held me here was the way its mirrored facade turned Broadway into something fluid, breaking the street into bands of colour, stretched faces, fragments of advertising and distorted architecture.

صورت هذا في مدينة نيويورك عام 2011. بدلا من عرض برودواي مباشرة، ركزت على ما يفعله الزجاج بها. الانعكاسات تنحني عبر الألواح الفردية، وتتغير شكلها في كل مرة تعبر فيها خياطة. وجوه الإعلانات المسرحية تتمدد وتتكرر. الأحمر والأصفر والأزرق يصطدم ببعضها. حتى الأجزاء المألوفة من الشارع تصبح صعبة التحديد.

That uncertainty is what makes the photograph work for me. It sits somewhere between city photography and abstraction. I know I am looking at Manhattan, but the familiar details have been rearranged by the surface of the building into something much less literal.

The strongest part of the image is the colour. Broadway already has an extraordinary visual density, and here the mirrored exterior compresses much of that energy into a single frame. Nothing stays perfectly straight. Lines tilt, faces distort and blocks of colour seem to move through the photograph.

I have always been drawn to scenes where ordinary architecture unexpectedly changes what I see. In this case, the building was not simply reflecting New York. It was reshaping it.

© Dan Kosmayer, 2011