In the early 20th century, as avant-garde painters broke with tradition by making their pictures abstract, Alvin Langdon Coburn set his sights on creating abstract photographs. At first he approached ...

Photography and memory have an interesting, even intertwined relationship. Each is critical to how we view our past, yet an unreliable record of what truly happened. Patricia Voulgaris was inspired by ...

Urban environments can be a frenetic mass of contrasts, vibrant or mundane, lively or eerie, beautiful or drab. For a photographer, it’s easy enough to capture how places like this look, but it’s more ...

In this series, Lagniappe presents a different work each week from the collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art, with commentary from a curator. Born to Jewish immigrants from Ukraine, Aaron ...

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Renowned portrait photographer Nigel Parry presents abstract, Rothko-inspired landscape film photography at the City Gallery Credit: "Colonial Lake" by Nigel Parry But he’s showing another side of his ...

Experience the ordinary in a new light this March at Town Square's Lobby Artist Gallery. Abstract fine art photographer W ...

Photography’s uncanny ability to represent the world had such a profound impact on society in the early 20th century that its role in non-representative art has been overlooked. “Shape of Light”, Tate ...

There was a time when Carl Chiarenza took pictures of trees, buildings and people. Recognizable subjects. “I never felt quite at home with that,” he says. Even in his early photos, Chiarenza would aim ...

The stacks of FedEx boxes and cubes of cracked glass scattered throughout the third floor of the Hirshhorn don't look like priceless works of contemporary sculpture, which is probably why museum ...

Documentary could not appear, at first, further from the practice of abstract photography; a difference between reflection and construction. Except for 20th century German Carl Strüwe, who spent three ...