What is abstraction in relation to photography?. Are you supposed to still represent a subject but totally disguise what it is? Examples would be helpful

-- Amanda Dengate (butterfly.kisses@bigpond.com), August 22, 2000

Answers

http://masters-of-photography.com/index.html

Check out Kertesz, "Distortion", "White Horse". Abstraction can range from composition of clearly recognizable objects, to "what the heck is that?"

-- Jeff Polaski (polaski@acm.org), August 23, 2000.

See if you can find any photos by Aaron Siskind on the net. He's the man for photo abstraction. But some of the early work of Strand fits in that category too--such as his picket fence photo.

-- Ed Buffaloe (edbuffaloe@unblinkingeye.com), August 23, 2000.

Also look at Ralph Gibson's work. His use of high contrast and composition might be thought of as abstraction, though his subjects are (mostly) recongnizable.

-- Chris Ellinger (ellinger@umich.edu), August 23, 2000.