Abstract tendency in photography is a fact, but despite the renewed interest in abstraction as a concept, theory and discourse regarding non-representative photography is still blury. Thus here you have selection of photographies from different deviants (currently only square format, more to follow soon), to show what abstract photography is and isn't and to rise a discussion.

Deviations in random order:






















"Why should not the camera also throw off the shackles of conventional representation and attempt something fresh and untried?...... Think of the joy of doing something which would be impossible to classify, or to tell which was the top and which was the bottom!" Alvin Coburn, 1916 - The Future of Pictorial Photography

Abstract photography is about "the self production of the medium", where "it is no longer what or who but how that is the focus of our interest" Gottfried Jager, 2002 - The Art Of Abstract Photography

"The images are essentially investigative; dissecting layers of indexical familiarity, giving reality a makeover, shifting perceptual paradigms, questioning mechanisms of observation." Roy Exley, 2002 - Process Photography

"Photography has become something we call image-information: it can be deconstructed into its component bits in order to reveal more information, and it can be reconstructed and recomposed to generate new meanings" Kevin Robins, 1996 - Electronic Culture: Technology and Visual Representation