![]() ![]() Turner and also served to title a series of collected lectures on the subject of abstract art by Kirk Varnedoe, a former curator at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.) (Such paintings have also been called "pictures of nothing." To be specific, the phrase was used by a critic to describe the works of J.M.W. In their extreme form, these types of images can be understood-to borrow a term from abstract painting-as "non-objective," or containing nothing that can be immediately recognized. ![]() However, for most of photography's existence, there has been a parallel tradition of what is generally labeled "abstract photography," or photographs that purposefully stray from presenting things as immediately recognizable and veer towards the abstract. When most people think of a photograph they think of images, taken with a camera, of that which can be identified from this world-i.e. This article sheds some light on the allure of what could be termed "Photos of Nothing" > They ask us to look, again, at something overlooked. These images, either through abstraction or overt banality, resist simple interpretation. ![]() ![]() This is a framing for understanding images that might defy easy reading. There's really no such thing as a photograph of nothing. ![]()
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