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Photo must have been taken after 12:00:01 a.m. June 17th and the dead line for submitted contest photos will be Monday, June 30th at midnight.
THESE RULES APPLY FOR SUBMITTED PHOTOS
Now, the reasoning behind this assignment. Abstract photos, we have seen by the confusion on the early initial posts (and lack of) that the term "abstract" is on not easily defined and is a perplexing idea or thought. What I hope you did learn in this assignment is that within inches of where you sit or stand, every day, there are thousands of photographic images just waiting for your eyes to see and your brain to conceptualize and your camera to capture.
We have posted critiqued comments after submissions and dead lines, but I wanted to post what, as the judge, I will be looking for in a winner and that is simple. I want your photo to move an emotion and to trigger one of our basic senses. Sight, touch, hear, smell....... a flat cardboard photo could win. See what I mean by a sense? A picture of a piece of cardboard, taken the right way, triggers a strong sense of smell and touch.
A little history on "abstraction" follows; if you are interested in reading it.
If you take the transition of the shutter to a memory card, in the sense of the transition, every picture that you take digitally, is an abstract photo through light being manipulated to pixels, which, before they are coded and compressed by software, are abstract in their character.
I could use several resources to put together what I found over the last two weeks of researching this topic, but I will here simply brief the history. My purpose of the assignment is I wanted others to read, learn the concepts of movement of photography, not just the ability to point a camera and cause a shutter to capture light.
Source:
Alvin Langdon Coburn is generally considered to be the father of abstract photography, having first used the term in his 1916 essay ‘The Future of Pictorial Photography’, in which he suggests exhibiting work that emphasizes the form and structure underlying the image, rather than reference to anything outside the image.
Strictly speaking, abstract photography is defined by the techniques employed and the resulting effects, not necessarily the photographer's intention. Early developers of this concept were Henry Talbot and contact prints of plants made in the 1830s; Étienne-Jules Marey's (late 19th-century chronophotographs). Abstract photography emerged in the early 20th century, as did abstract art generally.
In 1918 Christian Schad developed the photogram, which he called the Schadograph, a form of cameraless photography that lends itself to diverse creative intentions. A photogram is a photographic image made (without a camera) by placing objects directly onto the surface of a photo-sensitive material such as photographic paper and then exposing it to light. By 1930 abstract photography was recognized as an international style, and one particularly redolent of modernism and the search for a new reality.
Abstract photography, however, is not restricted to the play of light and chemicals in the darkroom or the creation and manipulation of images with computers. These methods have not been supplanted by more technical means of creating images, whether in the darkroom or at the computer, but have recurred throughout the history of abstract and experimental photography and persist today.
Techniques may also be combined for new effects. In place of a history of successive technologies, what has characterized the development of abstract and experimental photography is an increasing sophistication in the theoretical underpinnings that artists cite as the source or meaning of their imagery. Basic definitions and concepts are now routinely challenged, including those of ‘picture’ and ‘photography’, as the image-making process turns further inward to explore its own significance.
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It doesn't count, but here is one that I have been back to over and over since I took the photo. It is simply one of the stucco corners of our house.
Photo must have been taken after 12:00:01 a.m. June 17th and the dead line for submitted contest photos will be Monday, June 30th at midnight.
THESE RULES APPLY FOR SUBMITTED PHOTOS
Now, the reasoning behind this assignment. Abstract photos, we have seen by the confusion on the early initial posts (and lack of) that the term "abstract" is on not easily defined and is a perplexing idea or thought. What I hope you did learn in this assignment is that within inches of where you sit or stand, every day, there are thousands of photographic images just waiting for your eyes to see and your brain to conceptualize and your camera to capture.
We have posted critiqued comments after submissions and dead lines, but I wanted to post what, as the judge, I will be looking for in a winner and that is simple. I want your photo to move an emotion and to trigger one of our basic senses. Sight, touch, hear, smell....... a flat cardboard photo could win. See what I mean by a sense? A picture of a piece of cardboard, taken the right way, triggers a strong sense of smell and touch.
A little history on "abstraction" follows; if you are interested in reading it.
If you take the transition of the shutter to a memory card, in the sense of the transition, every picture that you take digitally, is an abstract photo through light being manipulated to pixels, which, before they are coded and compressed by software, are abstract in their character.
I could use several resources to put together what I found over the last two weeks of researching this topic, but I will here simply brief the history. My purpose of the assignment is I wanted others to read, learn the concepts of movement of photography, not just the ability to point a camera and cause a shutter to capture light.
Source:
http://www.answers.com/topic/abstrac...al-photography , Molly Rogers
Strictly speaking, abstract photography is defined by the techniques employed and the resulting effects, not necessarily the photographer's intention. Early developers of this concept were Henry Talbot and contact prints of plants made in the 1830s; Étienne-Jules Marey's (late 19th-century chronophotographs). Abstract photography emerged in the early 20th century, as did abstract art generally.
In 1918 Christian Schad developed the photogram, which he called the Schadograph, a form of cameraless photography that lends itself to diverse creative intentions. A photogram is a photographic image made (without a camera) by placing objects directly onto the surface of a photo-sensitive material such as photographic paper and then exposing it to light. By 1930 abstract photography was recognized as an international style, and one particularly redolent of modernism and the search for a new reality.
Abstract photography, however, is not restricted to the play of light and chemicals in the darkroom or the creation and manipulation of images with computers. These methods have not been supplanted by more technical means of creating images, whether in the darkroom or at the computer, but have recurred throughout the history of abstract and experimental photography and persist today.
Techniques may also be combined for new effects. In place of a history of successive technologies, what has characterized the development of abstract and experimental photography is an increasing sophistication in the theoretical underpinnings that artists cite as the source or meaning of their imagery. Basic definitions and concepts are now routinely challenged, including those of ‘picture’ and ‘photography’, as the image-making process turns further inward to explore its own significance.
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It doesn't count, but here is one that I have been back to over and over since I took the photo. It is simply one of the stucco corners of our house.
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