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I am Jack Rosenberg, a retired orthodontist who has always had a love of photography. I marveled at the magic of putting what I saw in the world onto paper and the Zen-like feeling that the darkroom had for me, while I was developing my images. I am slowly getting that same sensation with the digital software that is available today.

As an orthodontist, a dentist if you will, I had an eye for details and small parts of the whole. I enjoyed putting the little things together to make one large thing. This visual attraction to the smaller parts of the whole has carried over to many of my images. I guess a love of puzzles made abstraction a passion. At times, I am not sure what I started with to produce the abstract image, but that’s the fun part … looking at it and wondering what it is, or should I say was, before I worked on it. Sometimes, the abstract image fully appears in a common place, like in peeling paint, or reflections in rippling water, or even a simple windswept beach.

I travel quite a bit and many of my journeys have been documented in my work. I keep getting drawn to doors, windows and walls in foreign lands. (As a native New Yorker, everything outside of NY is a foreign land!) I prefer to be non-specific in my choices of photographic themes and therefore my images tend to be quite eclectic. I love to see saturated, bright colors and this is reflected in my images. I also try to see the colors in my black and white (or monochrome) images. To me, the shadows and highlights of a monochrome image can, with certain subjects be much more powerful than a color image of the same subject.

I believe that art should take you somewhere; take you to an imaginary place or time that doesn’t exist, but makes your imagination start revving and searching for a time or place that only is in your mind as a viewer of the image. My images, at times, are a bit “gritty” in texture and color, but I feel this adds to the mystery and beauty of the image.

abstract  •  abstraction  •  aqua  •  architecture  •  argentina  •  around the neighborhood  •  august 2011  •  barcelona  •  birds  •  black  •  blue  •  bricks  •  brown  •  buenos aires  •  building  •  bw  •  california  •  caribbean  •  chile  •  city  •  clouds  •  colors  •  cuba  •  cuban  •  cyan  •  dark  •  dawn  •  door  •  fold  •  folded  •  folds  •  food  •  gold  •  gray  •  great falls  •  green  •  grey  •  gritty  •  havana  •  hurricane irene  •  iberia  •  jr  •  la boca  •  landscape  •  light  •  market  •  maryland  •  monochrome  •  mountains  •  ocean  •  orange  •  paint  •  patagonia  •  pink  •  plants  •  point  •  portrait  •  portugal  •  potomac  •  potomac river  •  purple  •  railing  •  rapids  •  red  •  reflection  •  reflections  •  river  •  rocks  •  running  •  san francisco  •  santiago  •  shadows  •  sidewalk  •  skiing  •  sky  •  south america  •  spain  •  stairs  •  steamboat  •  steps  •  street  •  sunset  •  texture  •  tile  •  trees  •  twist  •  uruguay  •  us  •  water  •  waterfall  •  waves  •  white  •  window  •  windows  •  wood  •  yellow  •  2009  •  2010  •  2011  •  2012