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Defining Shadows II
Maureen J Haldeman
Photography - 101.6 x 76.2 x 0.6 cm Photography - 40 x 30 x 0.25 inch
$1,400
Toys for kids 2
Fabrice Quignette
Photography - 80 x 80 x 1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
$1,665
onderhemelse 2
Luuk de Haan
Photography - 41.4 x 51.6 x 0.3 cm Photography - 16.3 x 20.3 x 0.1 inch
$1,750
45°40' N, 142°10' E
Stéphane Spach
Photography - 40 x 108 x 0.5 cm Photography - 15.7 x 42.5 x 0.2 inch
$2,109
Breathe It In
Rika Maja Duevel
Photography - 50 x 50 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$1,343
Le touareg
Françoise Lapierre
Photography - 30 x 40 x 0.3 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
$666
Blue & White Series- Painting 1
Aatmica Ojha
Photography - 60 x 45 x 2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 17.7 x 0.8 inch
$2,109
Road signs I
Jakub Pasierkiewicz
Photography - 98 x 73 x 0.3 cm Photography - 38.6 x 28.7 x 0.1 inch
$1,287
From the series "Sunset" 2
Dmytro Bilous
Photography - 60 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$166
Space Sample 2.5 / Eiffel
Franck Guedj
Photography - 91 x 85 x 1 cm Photography - 35.8 x 33.5 x 0.4 inch
$1,387
Liberty (medium)
Jesus Torio
Photography - 84.1 x 54.06 x 0.2 cm Photography - 33.1 x 21.3 x 0.1 inch
$1,443
De sable et d'eau
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 90 x 60 x 2 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,554
Pointless Love series
Yumi Watanabe
Photography - 25 x 25 x 8 cm Photography - 9.8 x 9.8 x 3.1 inch
$622
Still life
Prajakta Potnis
Photography - 78.7 x 144.8 x 2.5 cm Photography - 31 x 57 x 1 inch
$10,000
Rehearsal for a landscape IV
Isabel Devos
Photography - 20 x 35 cm Photography - 7.9 x 13.8 inch
$1,054
28° 14' 20.922'' N, 114° 6' 9.395'' W-8
Paola Dávila
Photography - 35.6 x 55.9 x 0.3 cm Photography - 14 x 22 x 0.1 inch
$1,500
Intuition
Jean-Baptiste Isambert
Photography - 60 x 90 x 1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.4 inch
$2,109
Falla 6. From the series All the faults of the world
Rodrigo Etem
Photography - 93 x 49.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 36.6 x 19.6 x 0.1 inch
$1,600
Abstraction urbaine #5
Guillaume Chevallard
Photography - 49 x 69 x 2.9 cm Photography - 19.3 x 27.2 x 1.1 inch
$1,332
Insta(nt)llation - Completion. 1/ 3
Eszter Poroszlai
Photography - 30 x 30 x 3 cm Photography - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.2 inch
$1,165
Last Paradise
Nathan Brusovani
Photography - 102 x 100 x 3 cm Photography - 40.2 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$999
Féraud 1970 Black Sculpture Abstraction
Albert Féraud
Photography - 40 x 28 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11 inch
$2,109
Violoncelle
Thierry des Ouches
Photography - 50 x 75 x 1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 x 0.4 inch
$2,220
Repérage Casse tête chinois Paris, Étagère de livres appartement Xavier, rue St Maur Paris
Cédric Klapisch
Photography - 33.68 x 60 cm Photography - 13.3 x 23.6 inch
$1,110
Ulysses and Polyphemus
E. Ofza
Photography - 40 x 60 x 1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$1,165
Lettre à le Corbusier
Lubanzadyo Mpemba
Photography - 60 x 90 x 1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.4 inch
$1,998
Composition 1619
Denis Jutzeler
Photography - 60 x 48 x 1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 18.9 x 0.4 inch
$1,332
Senegal 2020, Horizon des événements
Hubert Lebaudy
Photography - 60 x 80 x 1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
$1,887
VIII: The Unselfconsciousness Of Eros
Gianfranco Pezzot
Photography - 240 x 180 cm Photography - 94.5 x 70.9 inch
$17,499
Série Camargue
Stefan Hoareau
Photography - 45 x 30 x 0.1 cm Photography - 17.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$663
Boule de papier II
Joseph Caprio
Photography - 90 x 60 x 1 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$888
Photographie et matière abstraite
Patrick Kerstein
Photography - 46 x 62 x 1 cm Photography - 18.1 x 24.4 x 0.4 inch
$638
And the Sea will be there 10
Arnaud Rinuccini
Photography - 80 x 120 cm Photography - 31.5 x 47.2 inch
$1,665
Des racine III
Renata Andrade
Photography - 60 x 40 x 2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$777
Singapore, from the Gardens to the Bay 1
Bruno Paget
Photography - 80 x 120 x 2.7 cm Photography - 31.5 x 47.2 x 1.1 inch
$3,885
Vol de Nuit
Carola Orieta-Sperman
Photography - 50 x 35 x 1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 13.8 x 0.4 inch
$4,127
Driving from Santa Fe
Jarmila Kostliva
Photography - 72 x 62 x 0.2 cm Photography - 28.3 x 24.4 x 0.1 inch
$600
L'encre dansant : février
Tiantian Xu
Photography - 100 x 100 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 inch
$2,442
Le Quai de Seine à Paris - série bords de Seine
Thierry Bazin
Photography - 27 x 27 x 0.5 cm Photography - 10.6 x 10.6 x 0.2 inch
$322
Self-Portrait 20.62
Arthur Hent
Photography - 40 x 30 x 2.5 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 x 1 inch
$777
Ruisseau Holocene I
Mari Amman
Photography - 50 x 35 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 13.8 x 0 inch
$1,222
Hydrocarbure
Stéphane Martin
Photography - 40 x 30 x 0.04 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$166
Architecture I
Chiara Indelicato
Photography - 55 x 82 x 0.5 cm Photography - 21.7 x 32.3 x 0.2 inch
$910
Iris hysterique
Sacha Haillote
Photography - 50 x 50 x 5 cm Photography - 19.7 x 19.7 x 2 inch
$1,443
Lady from the past
Eliana Barbosa
Photography - 30.5 x 30.5 x 2.5 cm Photography - 12 x 12 x 1 inch
$610
Chemin des remparts
Bogdan Kotewicz
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.3 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.1 inch
$910
Masterpiece
Alexia Rousse
Photography - 139.7 x 96.5 x 3.3 cm Photography - 55 x 38 x 1.3 inch
$4,355
Microbial Map of Middle Earth
Zigmunds Orlovskis
Photography - 40 x 40 cm Photography - 15.7 x 15.7 inch
$122
Think Back to All This
Henri Venne
Photography - 96.5 x 121.9 x 2.5 cm Photography - 38 x 48 x 1 inch
$6,438
Scarred comfort zone
Jérôme Dupré la Tour
Photography - 220 x 300 cm Photography - 86.6 x 118.1 inch
$1,998
Hommage à Mark Rothko 1
Daniel Allisy
Photography - 120 x 90 x 3 cm Photography - 47.2 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
$860
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Maison avec une grande histoire, Rome II
Alexei Lantsev
Painting - 70 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,997
Cuerpo escueto en fondo negro
Enrique Pichardo
Painting - 120 x 80 x 1 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
$1,858
The Mother of Dreams
Ewelina Skowronska
Painting - 100 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$2,053
Drawing No. 453
Sumit Mehndiratta
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 60 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$1,332
Abstract Photography for Sale
Abstract photography, also sometimes known as experimental photography, is the art of creating a visual effect with an image that has no immediate attachment to reality, by using processes like focusing, framing, or retouching and editing the photograph in post-processing. For example, an abstract picture can sometimes isolate a fragment of an ordinary image to remove it from its original context and give it a surrealist edge. It can also involve playing with blurring, shadows or lighting, textures or unexpected forms. The image is often created with traditional photographic material (analog or digital cameras, dark room, computer). However, artists can also manipulate and alter the film in order to achieve the desired effect.
The first images known as “abstract photographs" appeared shortly after the invention of photography in the 1830s. In 1842, John William Draper created a new type of images with a spectroscope. This machine dispersed light beams and produced a phenomenon that was previously invisible to the eye. The negatives he produced had nothing in common with the works of other photographers, and they opened the way for innovative photographic works. Draper perceived these images as a scientific discovery, not as artworks, but today his method is widely acclaimed by critics for its inherent originality.
In England, Anna Atkins was also a pioneer of abstract photography; she was the first one to place dry algae on cyanotype paper. This scientific experiment improved photographic techniques by creating unique blue and white images. Moreover, the discovery of X-ray and radioactivity in 1896 provoked a fascination for the invisible and many photographers were immediately drawn to these phenomena. French photographer Louis Darget attempted to capture mental processes by pressing unexposed plates to the foreheads of his and trying to get them to project images from their minds onto the plates. He carried out thousands of similar experiments.
It was only during the 20th century that abstract photography truly became recognised as an artistic practice. Surrealism and cubism started replacing impressionism, especially after the Salon d'Automne in 1903 in Paris. This event highlighted new talents like Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp… Ten years later, in New York, Wassily Kandinsky, Mondrian, Braque and Delaunay shocked audiences. The freedom coming from abstract art inspired some of the greatest photographers to break the rules.
Erwin Quedenfeldt exhibited the first abstract photographs in Cologne in 1914. From 1920 to 1930, Europe became the epicenters of conceptual photography with artists such as Jaroslav Rossler, Josef Sudeck, and Rössler exploring abstraction.
Post-processing became more central to photographic works in the 60s and the 70s, with artists like Josef Newman. Eventually, the growing popularity of computers in the 90s and the 2000s opened up infinite possibilities for creating original work. Some contemporary photographers like Peter Klasen, Dominic Harris, or Nicolas Dubreuille combine photography with other mediums.
Find them all on Artsper with our unique selection of abstract photographs.
What is considered abstract photography?
Abstract photography refers to images created using photography equipment that do not directly represent the real visual world as we see it. Abstract photographers use different techniques to manipulate the image captured by the camera.
What makes good abstract photography?
There are different factors in what makes a good abstract photograph, including composition, color, tone, lighting and mystery.
What are the different types of abstract photography?
There are many different ways to produce an abstract photograph. Techniques can include moving the camera during exposure, playing with light and reflections, using different angles, and experimenting with production techniques.