De-electrification, Philadelphia, PA, 2005All the pixels, none of the voltage, at flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/21#photography
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@mattblaze I showed this to my wife, who happens to have a postdoctoral degree in power system engineering.She asked if it was real, and if so, where she should avoid going, since this will likely end in disaster.
These (de-electrified) catenary wires were captured with a Sinar P camera and a 240mm lens on Polaroid 55 film (scanned) along the former Pennsylvania Railroad's "high line" in west Philadelphia near the university.This abstract composition references a 1936 painting, "Electrification", by precisionist artist Ralston Crawford; see hirshhorn.si.edu//collection/a
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