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.

Question: What do you think is meant by “Abstract photography can be defined as capturing images in which the subject isn’t the most interesting element”?

I think that it means the background of the image is more interesting than the main subject. What I mean is that the background may be something unusual and unrecognizable objects that seems like we had never seen before. Meanwhile, they are everyday objects just being shown in new ways that makes them unrecognizable.

Something I learned in the video we watched is another definition for the word “Abstraction” is “Non-representational” and “Unrecognizable'”. Another thing I learned in the video is that  people use objects in our daily lives but use them to make unrecognizable or non-representational images like in the video when he was talking about how a photographer made an abstract photo using only paper and sunlight, and in my perspective, it seemed like something unexplainable.