An Urban View: Post-Modern City Life
Welcome to An Urban View, the Urban View Photo™ Blog devoted to the Great American City!
Here you will find scenes from the urban landscape: images depicting Man's struggle against the environment as expressed in modern, industrialized society (i.e. the built environment). These illustrations range from vibrant, pleasant cityscapes to bleak, gritty, often surreal portraits of urban decay; whose ultimate goal is to accurately reflect and forever preserve the frantic, mechanized pace of city life at a moment in time. Sweeping twilight urban vistas, large brooding structures, huge powerful intricate machinery or abandoned warehouses - in short, urban industrial images.
Zombies!
November 01, 2015
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Zombies!
We recently had the opportunity to photograph the annual Zombie Walk in Asbury Park, NJ this past October, 2015. To fill in our readers, the Zombie Walk is a much-anticipated annual event in Asbury Park on the Jersey Shore. The event is so popular, that Asbury Park made the world record twice for the most Zombies gathered in one place: in...
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Through A Glass Darkly
February 13, 2014
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Through A Glass, Darkly
Drive down Cliffwood Avenue towards Aberdeen and look left just past the railroad tracks: there, nestled quietly on a large 52-acre fenced tract is the remnant of a once profitable glassworks, Anchor Glass Container Corporation. Then, a thriving industrial plant employing over 300 local NJ residents, Anchor Glass ran a 24...
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Urban Industrial Imaging
February 07, 2014
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Urban Industrial Imaging
I grew up in the North East; specifically, Bayonne, New Jersey. At least, I consider Bayonne to be my home. My father was in the Air Force, so we moved around quite a lot, but we always came back to Bayonne.
As a child, I was completely enamored with the city...skyscrapers, industrial landscapes and huge structures ab...
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ChatterBox Enterprises & Louisa Curtis
February 02, 2014
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Louisa J. Curtis
Every now and then, in the course of my business transactions, I come across someone that delivers well beyond the norm and provides what I consider to be extraordinary service. Louisa J. Curtis, owner of Chatterbox Enterprises is one such person. Last year I contracted Louisa's consulting services after I found her on Eyeist,...
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Happy Birthday, Mac!
January 28, 2014
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Happy Birthday, Apple Mac!
Yes, this year 2014 the Apple Macintosh celebrates its 30th year!
Hello, Mac...just look at you, all grown up!
The Apple Macintosh, brainchild of Steve Jobs, celebrates 30 years of innovation, 30 years of design excellence, 30 years of thinking and being different - 30 years "insanely great". For a generation, designer...
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