Freedom

by Marianne Campolongo

Title

Freedom

Artist

Marianne Campolongo

Medium

Photograph - Fine Art Photograph

Description

Freedom captures both the freedom of traveling in a fast car on the open road (a rarity in NYC) and the obvious symbolism of the Freedom Tower.

This abstract view of One World Trade Center and other New York City skyscrapers lit up at night was taken from the Brooklyn Bridge. Although it is an abstract photograph, it was not manipulated. It is true to the image shot in the camera.

I do, however, spend a lot of time processing my black and white photographs but solely to give them a feeling of authentic film photography. In fact, a NYC gallery owner thought I had shot this and others on film when he was reviewing my portfolio back in 2014. This was processed to bring out the grainy noir feel of traditional high speed black and white film, but the photograph is true to what I shot out the window of my husband’s fast moving car as we headed home from visiting our daughter in Brooklyn. The blurred image gives you that abstract feeling of motion as though you are traveling in a moving car over the iconic Brooklyn Bridge along with me.

A well-received image, it was first exhibited at the Gallery of the Desmond-Fish Library in Garrison, NY in the group show A Red Circle Photo Arts Retrospective in the summer of 2015, about a year after it was taken. It was also in a solo show as part of the Northern Westchester Artists Guild program Art Around Town in Chappaqua, NY in the summer of 2017. My husband also licensed this as the header image for his website and he has the original black and white fine art photograph hanging in his office. He loaned it back to me for the solo show :)

As I was reviewing my black and white collection here on Fine Art America/Pixels, I realized it was missing and so it is finally available in various photography formats in May 2019, nearly five years to the day after I took it!

This image is quite poignant for me as a reminder of the first time I crossed the Brooklyn Bridge on foot in the early 1980s when I lived in Manhattan. It was a small world kind of day as we ran into three different groups of friends by happenstance on the bridge, and although I was in law school preparing for a very different career at the time, I had my 35mm SLR, a trusty Olympus OM-1 and shot some images of the bridge and the Twin Towers. I took this with my mirrorless Olympus OMD-E1 more that 30 years later, a very different skyline and a very different world.

This image speaks to me of hope, resilience and freedom. If it speaks to you as well, it would make a great choice for your home or office with two American icons, the Freedom Tower and the Brooklyn Bridge.

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May 8th, 2019

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