Michael Krupka had passed Philadelphia\u2019s Via Bicycle repair shop for years before he ventured inside. As a\u00a0photographer rather than a cyclist, he was drawn by the jumble of frames and parts in the front window. \u201cMy father was a machinist and when I was a child we had a workshop at home where he could repair pretty much anything mechanical he encountered,\u201d Krupka recalls. \u201cAs an artsy kid, I didn\u2019t inherit those skills, but I do have an aesthetic attraction to machines and mechanical things.\u201d<\/p>\n
Krupka was out that day on what he describes as an \u201cintentional photo hunt\u201d. He asked a guy repairing a bike near the entrance for permission. \u201cHe just shrugged and carried on,\u201d Krupka says. \u201cI\u2019d hoped to capture the graphic chaos against the backlit window. What I found was an even more tangled scene, with even more bikes in the foreground, which I used for the bottom third of the composition,\u201d he says. \u201cThe shot has something of a maze or jigsaw element, too, a kind of puzzle that might have interesting things to find within it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Krupka adds that including colour would have \u201csubstantially lessened the impact of the geometry of the frames, wheels, seats. The blue-grey colour adds a layer of depth and energy, and has that touch of nostalgia, too. I\u2019d wager that a great many of us rode bikes when we were young.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Krupka had passed Philadelphia\u2019s Via Bicycle repair shop for years before he ventured inside. As a\u00a0photographer rather…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,49,48,356,75],"class_list":["post-505413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}