Gallery: Photog Transforms Oddball Buildings Into Dizzying Kaleidoscopic Images
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Cory Stevens' *Desconstructed. Reimagined.* is a photography project that dismantles architectural elements of buildings and reconstructs them into abstract images. *Image: Cory Stevens*
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This building was built by the Nazis in the early 1930s and was Hitler's main residence when in Munich. It has since become a music academy. *Image: Cory Stevens*
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This is one of the least manipulated images of the series. It features the domed top of the Bavarian State Chancellery in Munich. *Image: Cory Stevens*
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This is a music academy in Stuttgart. Stevens chose to focus on the 60m barrel-shaped tower that dominates the complex. *Image: Cory Stevens*
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Some of Stevens' images are totally unrecognizable as buildings. *Image: Cory Stevens*
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Others have more distinctive architectural features. It just depends on what elements Stevens decides to pull out and manipulate. *Image: Cory Stevens*
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He’ll mirror window patterns, flip a building, multiply steely facades and blend each layer until the building looks like a beautiful, unrecognizable version of its former self. *Image: Cory Stevens*
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Stevens crops the image, removing the background and leaving on the area that he plans to use and then totally annihilates the original image. *Image: Cory Stevens*
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