Technical

This, along with the majority of Luxemburg’s work, was taken at night, with only urban light illuminating the scene. The image has a warm, yellowish toned wash over it, with glares and intense yellow light coming from windows on the building and street lights. The camera focus is on the building structure, which is photographed head on, and the rest of the landscape appears grainy.

Visual

This image was taken from a height level with the building in the center of the image, which visually is the most striking aspect. This angle can make the building appear o be 2D as you can see no depth or sides of the building. The windows create a form of repetition, and they are structured in perfect rows showing a pattern, however it is interrupted by the different levels of light given off by each window. It is arranged to highlight the building in the foreground, however with the 2D aspect and colour over wash of the whole image, the structure can be seen to blend in with the background.

Contextual

Rut Blees Luxembourg moved from Germany to London in the 1990s to study at the London College of Printing. She was interested in urban areas of London city, capturing each area or the city with its realistic state, and its layered building structures. Luxembourg was known for taking images at night, often with edited green and yellow tones.

Conseptual

This image shows the replicated alignment of the urban building, which is pleasing to the eye. The idea could be that although industrial areas can look similar, they all have unique aspects and things that don’t fall into an organised pattern, and that urban areas look how they do with the impact of the people that live there – with the people living in the building choosing to have the lights on or of, which affect the lighting ad look of the image