Area Of Interest

        For the rest of the class, I would like to focus on making photos that depict environmental abstraction. In my recent photos, I noticed that I gravitated toward abstraction of architectural subjects. I would end up making compositions of environments that would be more about the shapes and forms than the subject and would appear two dimensional. In some of these photos, it would be hard to tell where up and down was and hard to get a good idea of how space in the scene would be set up. Photos by artists like John Lehr and Paul strand are pieces I will use as references.

Paul Strand "Shadows On Porch"

 John Lehr "126"

 John Lehr "326"

From these photos, I can see that Lehr and Strand and I are attracted to similar photos. Each piece uses the lines created by form and shadow to create abstract geometric compositions. I also like photos like these for how they alter everyday objects and environments and sometimes make them unrecognizable.