Abstract photography is an image that isn’t associated with the object world.  This can be done through various unusual textures within the photograph along with striking light forms creating interesting shapes.  This creates a strange and slightly unrealistic effect.  Influential photographers include Paul Cézanne, Jessica Eaton, Barbara Rosenthal.

Rust Abstraction

 Keld Helmer-Petersen 

 

Boylle Family

 

Formalism in photography analyses and compares form and style mainly focusing on color, line, shape, texture and their purely visual aspects.

Paul Strand – Light/Shadows

Reeds – Line/pattern

Texture/pattern