source: featureshoot

For Mauren Brodbeck’s series “Urbanscape and Cityscape”, she photographed buildings in both Los Angeles (where she was living) and Geneva (where she grew up). Brodbeck looks at buildings as if they are sitting for a portrait. “The idea is to photograph building as though they are people. That way, they become portraits of the cities where they are located. In this series, I am looking for subjects that have a real structural geometry. Buildings are a kind of mirror of society. I find the repetition and rhythm of architecture is associated with human rhythms such as habits and rituals. We are all really such creatures of habit.”

To determine the colors for the buildings, she uses the colors of the location or the colors of the season. “I am inspired by the colors of the place and the seasonal colors which can really change the feel of the pictures. I start by using the color palette of the area or the persona. Then I create my own color palette based on the original color. That maintains the authenticity at the base of the work.”
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source: lisajbaines2blogspot

Mauren Brodbeck was born in Switzerland and attended the Art Centre College of Design, she photographs buildings that are ordinary parts of the urban landscape then transforms them within there environment by using blocks of colour.

I especially like the way the blocks of colour against the urban backgrounds create a totally new image, although quite a simple technique the choice of which parts of the image to change into colour have been really thought about by the photographer to gain the best impact.
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source: mabee88

有沒有想過走在街道上的時候，在你眼前的那棟大樓如果只能有一個顏色，

你會把它放上什麼樣的顏色呢？

Mauren Brodbeck把建築物變成了單一的顏色，有點類似剪影的感覺，