Francis Bruguiere was an American experimental photographer working with multiple exposures and abstracts. His images were heavily dependent on dramatic light to manipulate the shapes and patterns, as a result creating a complex combination of light, shadow, texture and form. From Bruguiere, I have learned both light and shadows can help to create abstraction. |
Czech photographer Jaroslav Rossler is well known for taking away the context of his backgrounds so the attention is on the geometry of the objects. Like Bruguiere, he uses light and shadows to direct his viewers attention on the abstraction. Rossler was inspired by Surrealism, Cubism and constructivism. |
Contemporary artist Vjeko Sager received Masters Degree in Applied Arts from the University of Arts in Belgrade. In Sager's work 'Antimatter', he cuts up parts of the paper and creates abstract/geometric shapes and lines. Unlike Francis Bruguiere, Sager's work is less focused on the light aspect and more on the cuts formed on the paper. From Sager's work I've learned that abstraction doesn't have to depend on light, it can be created by the shapes that the artist creates. |
Jerry Reed is an English photographer. His work is influenced by Bruguiere and it heavily focuses on contrast in the shadows from the light on the paper like Bruguiere. The only difference is, Reed's work is simple whereas Bruguiere's is chaotic and has a lot going on . "My current three-year project is comprised of twenty-six images. In my studio, I shaped two-dimensional art papers giving them edges and volumes, then lit them dramatically utilizing Fresnel lighting to emphasize their three-dimensional forms. Though ephemeral, my forms are preserved photographically." - Jerry Reed. |
“And as much as I’d like to believe there’s a truth beyond illusion, I’ve come to believe that there’s no truth beyond illusion.” - Tamara Lornez Tamara Lorenz was born in 1976 in Oberhausen. In her work, Lornez plays with light and shade. By doing this, Lorenz gets rid of "structural reality" in her work |