“Knowing others is intelligence;
knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength;
mastering yourself is true power.”
(Lao Tzu)
Tag: Colors
Abstract Photography with colors
Magic (not abstract)
“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful, and don’t forget to make some art — write or draw or build Read More
Flashback
“Trauma destroys the fabric of time. In normal time you move from one moment to the next, sunrise to sunset, birth to death. After trauma, you may move in circles, find yourself being sucked backwards into an eddy or bouncing Read More
Questions over Questions
The form or shape of a subject will play a crucial role in how you approach your subject. Assess the form carefully and think about which aspects of the subject you want to exploit, for example, is it very straight and formulaic, does it lots of curves and imply movement or is it a natural object whose form will change over time? Decide whether you want the form of the subject as a whole to be within the image or whether you want to focus in on one particular area of interest. Also think about whether there are any recognisable shapes that you can work with, be it circles, triangles or hexagons, use them to your advantage!”
Patchwork
Creatively Approaching Abstract Photography “Step 3 – Break the rules! It’s important to consider what elements of your subject that you want to engage with in order to enhance your shot. Use your imagination, stop thinking about the subject in Read More
Lime (One year later)
If you are surprised, let me tell you that I am either. Last year there was less graffiti around and so I was honestly surprised that I could find the same picture again this year. If you don’t see the Read More
Lime
Creatively Approaching Abstract Photography “Photography takes many forms and incorporates many different styles, most of which either fall into the categories of documentary or fine art. It is in the second category that we find abstract photography, a means of Read More
Wishes
“The Photogram Moholy-Nagy continued experimenting with the photogram throughout his career, and his work would have a major influence on later photographers such as Henry Holmes Smith, Arthur Siegel, Lois Field, and Nathan Lerner, all of whom created photogram-based work. Read More
Tired
“The Photogram A few years later, in 1921, the American photographer and artist Man Ray moved to Paris and became close friends with two figureheads of the Dada movement, Hans Arp and Tristan Tzara. Tzara introduced Man Ray to Schad’s Read More
Artsy
Concepts and Trends: The Sky and Worker’s Tools: Photographs of the Everyday Objects In 1922, Alfred Stieglitz decided to create a series of photographs of clouds, “to show that [the success of] my photographs [was] not due to subject matter Read More
Thwacked
Straight Photography and Paul Strand Straight Photography was a movement that developed in the early 1900s, marking a movement away from the Pictorialist emphasis on painterly composition. The Straight Photographers sought to capture their subject-matter with a clarity that only Read More
Hello
“Alvin Langdon Coburn’s Vortographs (Part 3) The movement of Vorticism had been launched in 1914, by Pound’s friend, the artist Wyndham Lewis, and the pair were primarily responsible for its conception and development. Though it purportedly spanned over a range Read More
Cold blooded | One year later
It’s really cold, but no ice this year… But I wanted to offer you a solution, even without ice. So last year I took a picture of some ice along this metallic curtain, that is part of a water game Read More
Cold blooded
“Alvin Langdon Coburn’s Vortographs (Part 2) Coburn’s interest in abstraction led him towards Vorticism. In 1913, while taking photographs for his portrait book More Men of Mark (1913), he met the avant-garde poet Ezra Pound, one of the founding figures Read More