Photography and memory have an interesting, even intertwined relationship. Each is critical to how we view our past, yet an unreliable record of what truly happened. Patricia Voulgaris was inspired by ...
More Radical Than Picasso? A New Tate Exhibit Shows The Groundbreaking Story Of Abstract Photography
In the early 20th century, as avant-garde painters broke with tradition by making their pictures abstract, Alvin Langdon Coburn set his sights on creating abstract photographs. At first he approached ...
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Rishi Deka, a UC San Diego postdoctoral researcher in radiation medicine and an award-winning photojournalist, has taken to creating what he calls “psychedelic abstract photography” in response to the ...
Photography’s uncanny ability to represent the world had such a profound impact on society in the early 20th century that its role in non-representative art has been overlooked. “Shape of Light”, Tate ...
Morgan Community College’s (MCC) Center for Arts and Community Enrichment (CACE) announces an upcoming abstract photography art exhibit, showcasing the talents of artist Steve Caufield. The unique ...
In this series, Lagniappe presents a different work each week from the collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art, with commentary from a curator. Born to Jewish immigrants from Ukraine, Aaron ...
There was a time when Carl Chiarenza took pictures of trees, buildings and people. Recognizable subjects. “I never felt quite at home with that,” he says. Even in his early photos, Chiarenza would aim ...
“You know how you watch a scene of enormous devastation on television and think, oh my, those poor people,” photographer Christine Triebert says about the impact of Tropical Storm Irene, which came ...
Urban environments can be a frenetic mass of contrasts, vibrant or mundane, lively or eerie, beautiful or drab. For a photographer, it’s easy enough to capture how places like this look, but it’s more ...
Documentary could not appear, at first, further from the practice of abstract photography; a difference between reflection and construction. Except for 20th century German Carl Strüwe, who spent three ...
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