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Allen’s photographs reflect his 30-year career
as an industrial designer. Whether turning his camera on the built
environment or on the natural world, Al’s focus has always
been on design. This is clearly evident in his photographs of interiors.
Al’s images of man-made structures, such as schoolrooms,
workplaces, Native American cliff houses or abandoned factories,
may seem to be about architecture, but are actually about design: how light
and shadow create form in space. |
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The World Trade Center is a structure of special interest to Al.
While working in the New York area in the 1970’s, Al was
able to photograph the World Trade Center while it was under construction.
In light of recent events, these photographs now have invaluable
historical significance. |
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Al’s early career
in the industrial Northeast also enabled him to indulge what has since
become a lifetime passion for transportation photography.
The trains, planes and ships that have played such a significant
role in our nation’s history have been turned into
elegant studies of form and light in Al’s photographs. |
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Allen‘s photography also includes the time-honored, traditional
genre of landscape and nature. Al has photographed landscapes throughout
North America, with an emphasis on national parks and preserves
where nature remains the most unaltered by man. Once again, Al’s
photography, that emphasizes the patterns and textures created
by geological processes, demonstrates his passion for design.
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