abstraction Archives — Paul Politis

Poster generations

June 9, 2024 Paul Politis 0

“The business of making a photograph may be said in simple terms to consist of three elements: the objective world (whose permanent condition is change […]

Abstractions

July 6, 2021 Paul Politis 0

Here are some quotes from the Dutch painter Piet Mondrian accompanied by a few of my black and white photos. I’m aware that it is […]

City Skin

July 6, 2021 Paul Politis 0

Over the past year or so I’ve taken some photos through the scratches and graffiti on the various transparent surfaces I come across during my […]

Construction Site Boarded Wall (black and white photograph)

Bored

May 11, 2021 Paul Politis 0

“If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it […]

Urban Inmate P1090339 (black and white photograph)

Proto Abstraction in Photography

August 14, 2020 Paul Politis 0

Proto Abstraction What I call ‘proto abstraction’ can, as the name implies, be considered a way-stage on the road to abstraction proper. It typically depicts […]

Courtyard Revisited (black and white photograph)

Urge to abstraction: order and regularity

August 14, 2020 Paul Politis 0

The art historian, Wilhelm Worringer, wrote a dissertation in 1906, which became his famous Abstraction and Empathy. […] Worringer stated that modern aesthetics was based […]