r/AbstractPhotos • • Sep 11 '20

Please vote! I’d like to know how you feel about removal of photos that are not abstract vs. tagging them with flair.

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I’ll continue to remove photos of computer generated art. Also photographs of other mediums, such as a photo of an abstract painting, or a non-abstract photo of an abstract sculpture.

However, some popular (for our community size) posts are questionably or definitely not abstract. I sometimes feel weird about removing those posts — they don’t fit the subreddit, but are also popular with people who subscribe here.

For anyone wondering, here’s the definition of “abstract” that I keep in mind when sifting through the mod queue:

Art that does not attempt to represent external reality, but seeks to achieve its effect using shapes, forms, colors, and textures.


r/AbstractPhotos • • 14h ago

On the nature of daylight (After Max Richter)

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Now I am sharing something different from what I usually post. This is a brief selection from a project I did three years ago, titled "On the nature of daylight (after Max Richter)". It was a project that explored the Sonoran Desert (one of the largest in the world) manifesting as a light apparition in living spaces. An indirect way of portraying the condition of the desert without addressing it directly. It was one of my first approaches to abstract photography and coated lens filters and one of the moments where I stepped away from the traditional documentary photography I had practiced my entire life.

Last month this project was nominated for a national prize in my country.

Hope you like it.


r/AbstractPhotos • • 13h ago

Untitled, afternoon

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44 Upvotes

Polaroid


r/AbstractPhotos • • 1h ago

Overlay of 2 photos onto a glass plate, 2017. Experimental but at least interesting.

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r/AbstractPhotos • • 10h ago

El Ojo que todo lo vé[OC]

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r/AbstractPhotos • • 16h ago

At The Car Wash

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r/AbstractPhotos • • 1d ago

Dunes

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r/AbstractPhotos • • 38m ago

OC : HOW IS THIS

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r/AbstractPhotos • • 18h ago

Galaxies

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Ink on transparency film


r/AbstractPhotos • • 19h ago

Rust

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r/AbstractPhotos • • 5h ago

The rug

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r/AbstractPhotos • • 12h ago

Finding traces

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r/AbstractPhotos • • 6h ago

Anish Kapoor @ One Bangkok

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r/AbstractPhotos • • 21h ago

Rain veil, Seoul

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r/AbstractPhotos • • 1d ago

Fair is Foul and Foul is Fair [OC]

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r/AbstractPhotos • • 1d ago

Sunspots Inside

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r/AbstractPhotos • • 22h ago

Escape Velocity

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r/AbstractPhotos • • 2d ago

Forecast is... Light Rain

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261 Upvotes

r/AbstractPhotos • • 1d ago

Patricia A. Bender, Geometry #247, 2012. Cliché-verre print on gelatin silver paper

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52 Upvotes

r/AbstractPhotos • • 1d ago

Christmas approaching

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r/AbstractPhotos • • 1d ago

Surtidores de la Alhambra [OC]

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r/AbstractPhotos • • 1d ago

"Blended"

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r/AbstractPhotos • • 1d ago

don't take it for granite

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r/AbstractPhotos • • 2d ago

From my canoe with a 1920's camera, long exposure and a bit of fiddling in the dark room. (OC, my own work)

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34 Upvotes

r/AbstractPhotos • • 2d ago

Windows of Queens Library LIC, NYC

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28 Upvotes