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 ...

Rishi Deka, a UC San Diego postdoctoral researcher in radiation medicine and an award-winning photojournalist, has taken to creating what he calls “psychedelic abstract photography” in response to the ...

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 ...

LINCOLN — The acceptance of abstraction in painting was a hard-won battle, so much so that once it was won, representation became for a time peripheral in contemporary art. One of the forces driving ...

When we think about photography, we usually think about immediately recognizable images: a street scene, for example, or a portrait of a person, or maybe a landscape. So it might be easy to forget ...

ArchDaily has partnered with The Architectural Review to bring you short thematic introductions to the magazine's monthly editions. Up now: AR's April 2014 issue, which examines the complexities of ...

Spenser Harper has created a tumblr full of beautiful abstract photography. Constantly filled with bright colors, organic shapes, and soft focus, this blog has all the makings of a gorgeous daily ...

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 ...