Keld Helmer-Petersen (August 23, 1920 – March 6, 2013), was a Danish photographer who became renowned for his abstract colour photography in the 1940s and 1950s. Petersen worked with photographer Erik Hansen, after which he established his own studio specializing in architecture and design photography, in 1956.
Over his career, Petersen’s focus shifted onto architecture and design, not only in his photographs but also as an artistic field of interest. In the following decades he worked as a photographer for his generation of architects and designers.
This is an example of Petersen’s architectural work. In this photo you can clearly see the great amount of white negative space which contrasts the heavy and solid black shapes.
Response
To create a response to Petersen’s work I used photographs I already had from my summer task. Then I edited them in Photoshop using the threshold adjustment, I just slid through the bar and selected how I wanted it. Image > Adjustments > Threshold.
After I had edited all 4 photos with different layers of Photoshop, I arranged them together on a blank page to create a collection.
Final Outcome
Below is my final outcome.
