By Arthur House. 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.

Barbara Crane, an abstract photographer whose camera transformed mundane objects into provocative, playful and sometimes frightening fantasies, died on Aug. 7 at her home in Chicago.She was 91 ...

When you cross the second-floor catwalk to see “Shadow Archive: Meggan Gould,” on view at the California Museum of ...

Mexico-born Fabiola Menchelli created large-scale, abstract photography using toxic chemicals in a photographic darkroom — her exhibition 'certain silence' at the Norton Museum of Art in West ...

Beuford Smith, a socially conscious photographer who created empathetic, abstract and sometimes shadow-filled images of life in Black communities in New York City, including jazz musicians at work ...

Body Parts shows the evolution of abstract figurative photography from that era up to the present. "Individually, the photographs present fragmented perspectives of the body.

Florence Henri‘s retrospective Mirror of the Avant Gardes at the Musée du Jeu de Paume in Paris, France runs until May 17, 2015.. Carole Naggar is a photo historian, poet and regular ...

Photographers seeking customers during the medium’s early years often urged the public to “Secure the shadow, ere the substance fade.” Hinting at life’s fragility, this tagline underscored photography ...