Wednesday 9 March 2011

Abstract Photography

Abstract Photography is one of the field with no definition at all,it has mesmerized photographers since the days of the invention of camera.Till date no common grounds have been achieved by different photographers and photo galleries as to what this abstract photography is all about.However to put in simple terms in abstract photography you are not concerned with the actual appearance of the object,it leaves us to imagine more and concentrate on texture,colour,form or a portion of photo rather than the whole subject.

Most of the people take it  ass modern or abstract art where the objectivity is generally the same but most people are not able to make sense from the modern art and are not able to appreciate the beauty or abstraction behind it while in case of abstraction photography its quite reverse,even normal people do get to make sort of sense out of the photo because most of the photo don't have a defined subject so the curious human mind is able to make some sort of subject out of a photo and say "what's this,this looks great" and this is what drives our abstract photographers who are able to isolate the beauty of a portion of the subject and then objectify it to a greater extent.

Primarily abstract photography can be divided into three categories:-
1)Abstraction of the whole Photo:-In this you look at the object as a whole and you try to first figure out the basic message or subject of the photo.However abstraction comes into existence when you look beyond the subject and try to realize the other dimensions of the object and capture that part of abstraction which is clearly visible in the photographic subject matter.
2)Abstraction of the part of the photo:-In this you concentrate on a part of the photo that has got a artistic value of its own.You are able to capture the intrinsic or hidden beauty of a portion of photo by removing all the portions of the object or in other words scrapping up the other details of the photograph.
3)Abstraction within photo:-Sometimes you see weird objects and looking at them for sometime you start feeling they actually make some sort of real world object like a shape of cloud suddenly making some sense.This is what you capture in this category of abstraction photography.

Now if you look at a photo and say what does this photo actually mean,you are asking the wrong question because most of the photographers don't take photographs with the intention of any particular meaning instead they try to capture the beauty trying to balance the colour harmony,new texture which overall brings a new sense of charm in itself and our mind begins to feel soothed.Most of the abstract photographers tinker with the colour part of the photographs mixing them in a unusual manner to produce the desired effect.Now a days with the use of new technology and many special type of filters available photographers are able to separate the colors of photographs in a rainbow fashion.Thats why we see a photograph of a beautiful girl half as black and white and half coloured with  just the right amount of sunshine on her.This is just a example of abstract photography.

Just making pretty photographs isn't the aim all the times,Aesthetic boundaries are broken down without necessarily being rebuilt,however others tinker with photograph to make it abstract in the way they want it to.
Now the subjectivity of a photograph is entirely dependent on the user,what may seem to be a perfect photograph to someone may  not convey a meaning at all to some,thats why there is a tremendous variety in the field of abstract photography.So those are masters of this field bring in a lot of imagination and creativity in the process and again set the new benchmarks in the process of experimentation and stretching the boundaries of photography.

Some of the examples of the abstract photography I have displayed below.




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