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’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 ...

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A master of illusion, Ms. Crane transformed the quotidian into the quirky by distorting images through a variety of formats. By Sam Roberts Barbara Crane, an abstract photographer whose camera ...

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 ...

CE Morse sometimes hides a chuckle when a friend compliments one of his abstract photographs. “That’s a beautiful shot,” someone might say. “What is it?” “A dumpster,” replies Morse, who lives in ...

Tate Modern’s new exhibition presents over 300 photographs, along with paintings and sculptures for comparison, to explore the medium’s avant-garde ambitions. Aug. 4, 2018 7:00 am ET ...

There are times visitors to the exhibit will not be able to decipher what is going on in the photographs, but that doesn’t make the images less relevant. “They’re as much a record as that in ...

The Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden has announced “Carlotta Corpron: Light Is a Plastic Medium,” a survey of work by the American abstract photographer and educator. Carlotta ...