Abstract photography is a style of photography that uses creative, weird ways to present objects and deliver a message, usually, authors doesn’t tell the message they want to tell us directly.

How can photography change our relationship the to things?
Abstract photographs tell us to look at different things from multiple perspectives.

What is pictorialism?
Pictorialism is a way that emphasizes beauty of subject, tonality, and composition instead of the documentation of reality.

What is abstract photography?

Abstract photography is a style of photography that uses creative, weird ways to present objects and deliver a message, usually, authors don’t tell the message they want to tell us directly.

Write a (very) short biography of Albert Renger-Patzsch (just 1 or 2 sentences).
Albert Renger-Patzsch is a German photographer who lived from June 22, 1897, to September 27, 1966. His photographs often focus on making ordinary subjects in a creative way.

From looking at his images above, What types of subjects do you think Albert Renger-Patzsch preferred to photograph?
From looking at Albert Renger-Patzsch’s photos, I think he preferred to make natural things or views and plants as his subject.

Why do you think he entitled his famous book, ‘The World is Beautiful’?
The book “The World is Beautiful” was entitled to its name because, in the book, there are all natural views of the world around us every day, trying to tell us to discover the surrounding beauty.

Why do you think Edward Weston moved away from the soft focus of pictorialism to the new Straight photography movement? – the idea that ordinary objects and scenes can be photographed to reveal their beauty
In his career, he didn’t stay in one place the whole time, because there were different cultures in different places where Edward stayed, and it affected his idea to change differently over time.

Give examples of one of his pictorialist images and one of his straight images.
Pictorialist: The Photographer’s Father

Straight: Pepper No.30

How has Aaron Siskind (above, been influenced by the Straight Photography Movement
It let him get interested in detailed photographs of surfaces with special textures, shapes, and lines and let this to be the style he best known as.

Name some other photographers that have been influenced by straight photography
Paul Strand, and Ansel Adams.

What makes the work of Andreas Gursky and Uta Barth abstract. Are they straight photographers? Why?
These two photographers’ works are abstract because the photos were not taken like ordinary subjects, and also didn’t pass the message directly. However, I don’t think they are a straight photographer because they didn’t actually show the detailed subject, instead they still showed the blurry kind.

Explain what the phrase Formal Elements means in photography.

Formal elements are elements that compose a picture and what makes a picture interesting.

Describe each of the 6 elements discussed so far (line, shape, pattern, texture, tone, focus)

Lines can be straight, curved, horizontal, vertical, and converging. They can be seen everywhere in our world.

Shapes are also nearly everywhere. It shows more than what an object’s like; it also tells us the weight, size and height.

Patterns can be used very creatively, making us see from a perspective that we normally do not notice.

Textures are usually observed on the surface of an object. It is usually three-dimensional and it looks more interesting.

Value and tone are a bit different; value is the range of light and dark, and tone is a mixture of color, not completely a pure hue.

Focus is if a particular area in a photograph is clear or not.

Give an example that emphasizes each element –

Lines: Paper Tubes – Vangelis Mc Ris

Shapes: Spotted Apple – Keith Carter

Pattern: Exchange of Plates with Kristjan II – Ola Kolehmainen

Texture: Jerome, Arizona 21 – Aaron Siskind

Tone: Salvage Series – Dan Ferro

Focus: Untitled – Ralph Eugene Meatyard

4. Can an image show just one element at a time? Justify your answer.

I think it’s hard because lots of elements already contain other elements in it, and I think any subject in this world won’t only show up one element. The element pattern already contains different so it will be hard for photographer only using one element.