Francis Bruguière (1879 - 1945) |
Francis Joseph Bruguière is an american photographer. He was mainly interested in painting, poetry and music. In New York he became acquainted with Alfred Stieglitz (a photographer and modern art promoter) at a gallery afterwards, Bruiguière soon took up photography. Bruguière experimented with multiple exposures (around 1912), solarization, original processes, abstracts, photograms, and the response of commercially available film to light of various wavelengths.
The multiple exposures within the photographs inspired me and captured me. Some photographs look like they have been edited on an editing software platform, it looks perfectly merged together and the opacity of the second exposures look as if they were manipulated. I learnt that his famous series of cut-paper abstractions created this merged effect and overlaps - which shows me it is possible with paper |
Jaroslav Rössler (1902-1990) |
Jaroslav Rössler was a pioneer of Czech avant-garde (new idea) photography. He began his career as an apprentice in the Prague studio of Frantisek Dritkol - he learnt many techniques of oil, bromoil, pigment and other printing techniques which enabled him to create a series of unique, abstract photographs.
I really like the contrast of geometrical areas of light, shade and reflections, I am going to attempt to do a photogram using his style of work and use materials such as cardboard and make it into geometric shapes |
Dirk Bakker |
Dirk Bakker is known as @macenzo on Instagram.
He is a photographer from Amsterdam with a unique eye for patterns, textures, lines and shadow play. I was very intrigued in the lines and pattern in one of his architecture photograph I found on Pinterest and the angles he photographed in emphasises the abstraction within the image; all the lines are even and some patterns are symmetrical making it appear like a reflection. |
Erin O'Malley |
Erin O’Malley explores the interaction of light with transparent and reflective surfaces. She experiments using objects such as, glass, plastic, liquid, resin.
Her photographs look synthetic and unrealistic that it required trial and error to build successful photos like that. I am inspired by her manipulation with light and materials; Erin's photographs are a series of experiments and a process of trial and error built upon past successes. I have learnt that it many series of experimentation is important and I should persist and build upon the past errors and successes if I have any. |
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