Abstract photography can be defined as capturing images in which the subject isn’t the most interesting element. Albert Renger-Patzsch and Aaron Siskind photographed the ordinary to reveal their beauty. Uta Barth reversed the typical use of the camera, shooting out of focus and Andreas Gursky photographs the repetition of elements. During this unit, you will investigate appropriate examples of abstract photography and respond in your own way.
My initial description of abstraction is where there’s a lot of objects or shapes in an image with no clear main focus, or something bright in color and uniquely disproportionate. When it says that abstract photography doesn’t make the subject the most interesting element, I believe it means that there is other elements that compliment or rival the subject. Either that’s shape, color, texture, sizing, or other visual elements. This could also mean that there isn’t a main subject. In other forms of photography, there’s a object that’s the main focus, but in the few abstraction pictures examples that isn’t always the case. Sometimes there’s more than one subject or showing a subject in a new light.