Talking About Photography 4

Abstraction

There is a formula to straight lines and to curved lines.

A secret code.

Mystery hides real forms; and the photographer, in this case, is the hiding place.

The art of Deception (misleading) shows one thing and talks of another.

Is it of the fortuitous meeting with things?

Is it from recognition, to what was already there, waiting only to be told?

Or perhaps, in hopes of finding something

where little is to be found.

Isn’t it finally a combination of words, knowingly ordered and disordered, isn’t it a poem?

The beauty of abstract is that you can follow your eyes to a meaning entirely your own. For me, often this means capturing an unusual shape or texture. The lines here drew my eyes. I knelt down to follow them, and I found something stark. There is not amusement to me, as the photographer in these pictures, even with the warm tones. To me, this is light taking on two forms and drawing a parallel between them. HS

 

(Using reflections and light to play on an abstract concept- Heather)

Abstraction can lead people to see the same thing differently.  It is amazing how light shining through a window can look different to different people and can even look very different at various times throughout the day.  (Hadley Manfredi)

Abstraction is a subjective concept. These pictures are amusing, because they describe light as lines of hope through the windows. (Corinna Rombi)

No direction.

Beauty beyond perception.

It is the jump and the rest

at the same intersection.

The stiffness.

The fragility.

The infidelity and the overrated reaction.- Kirila


See whatever you want. Take whatever you need. Adjust is to you, and read what you wish to hear. Is there any kind of specific message that author wanted to convey? Does it even matter? If it speaks to you, isn’t that enough?
Tamara S

The light represents life, here is a lyrics to a song
You light up my life
 You light up my days
And fill my life with song
It can't be wrong when it feels so right
'cause you, you light up my life
(Federica Nuzzolese)


"Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can't create it if you don't have one." - Brad Bird. 

- Similar to this statement, the illusion of life will be viewed differently for each person based on the vision of life they have developed from their personal experiences. Everyone looks at life from a different lens and therefore the same object can have an infinite number of meanings. (Margot Rittenhouse)