Thoughtfactory: abstractions

developing the tradition of photographic abstraction

Posts for Tag: b+w

a b+w version

This  black and white version of an abstract rock formation near Petrel Cove is from the archives in 2019.

A colour version, which was posted in 2019,  is here.  

I have been starting to research and write about  photographic abstraction that moves beyond the modernist idea of abstraction as non-figuration of the mid-twentieth century. Whilst doing so I have been working my way  through the  archives. 

granite abstraction #11

This abstraction was made at  the bottom of the western edge of Kings Head, Waitpinga. It is almost to the point.   It was made whilst I was on an afternoon  poodlewalk in January, 2018:

At the time I  was struck by the light across  the face of the granite as well as the complexity of the shape of the granite formation.   The picture  was made with a digital camera,  and it was  a study for a  possible large format b+w photo. I've  never been  back  to do the b+w photo session as the Sinar f1 camera wasn't ready.