Paul Politis

photographs

  • Home
  • Recent work
  • Galleries
    • Red Tiger
    • Just du beau papier sur un mur moche
    • Mirrors and Windows
    • Poster Generations
    • Wolf Down Street
    • Welcome to Paradise
    • Window Shopping
    • Walking on Diamonds
    • City Portraits
    • Enchanted City
    • City Canvas
    • You Are Here
    • Disconnected
  • Miscellany
    • Inspiring Photographers
      • Henri Cartier-Bresson
      • Lee Friedlander
      • Ray K. Metzker
      • Henry Wessel
    • Photography and Art Quotes
    • Tutorials and Essays
      • Make a Photo Chapbook

ottawa

Courtyard Revisited (black and white photograph)

Courtyard Revisited (black and white photograph)

October 15, 2020 Paul Politis 0
Ottawa, May 10, 2020

Untitled (black and white photo)

October 8, 2020 Paul Politis 0
Untitled (black and white photograph)

Shutterbug #2 (black and white photo)

October 1, 2020 Paul Politis 0
Untitled (black and white photograph)

The eye trains itself to transmit many small delights

September 27, 2020 Paul Politis 0

“I believe I am a stranger to humanity. I did not want just to paint people with their grimaces and gestures. What I really wanted […]

Untitled (black and white photograph)

Photograph (black and white photo)

September 10, 2020 Paul Politis 0
Ottawa, April 25, 2019 (black and white photograph)

Division (black and white photo)

August 26, 2020 Paul Politis 0
My Cup Runneth Over (black and white photograph)

Inner and outer purpose have not merged

August 24, 2020 Paul Politis 0

“Many people who are going through the early stages of the awakening process are no longer certain what their outer purpose is. What drives the […]

Touch (black and white photograph)

Touch (black and white photograph)

August 19, 2020 Paul Politis 0
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 […]

The annihilation that is prerequisite to rebirth

August 14, 2020 Paul Politis 0

“The individual … no longer resists the annihilation that is prerequisite to rebirth in the realization of truth, and so becomes ripe, at last, for […]

Untitled (black and white photograph)

Isolation

August 13, 2020 Paul Politis 0
Transformation (black and white photograph)

Let us learn to play

August 13, 2020 Paul Politis 0

“Freud was right in linking play and phantasy, but he was surely wrong in believing that play and phantasy should be abandoned in favour of […]

Untitled (black and white photograph)

It is not upon you alone the dark patches fall

August 12, 2020 Paul Politis 0

“It is not upon you alone the dark patches fall,The dark threw its patches down upon me also,The best I had done seem’d to me […]

Ottawa, April 6, 2020 (black and white photograph)

Cloud (black and white photo)

August 12, 2020 Paul Politis 0

Posts pagination

« 1 … 12 13 14 … 18 »

A clean, well-lighted place

“The challenge for artists is just as it is for everyone else: to face facts and somehow come up with a yes, to try for alchemy.”
– Robert Adams

  • Solitary pursuits

    Solitary pursuits

    May 8, 2025
  • Three mailboxes

    Three mailboxes

    May 5, 2025
  • Circular reasoning

    Circular reasoning

    April 27, 2025
  • Animating spirit

    Animating spirit

    February 22, 2025
  • In a window

    In a window

    February 21, 2025
  • Royal Oak

    Royal Oak

    February 20, 2025
  • Montreal compression

    Montreal compression

    February 20, 2025
  • Construction

    Construction

    February 19, 2025
  • La Belle Province

    La Belle Province

    February 19, 2025
  • Walking Ottawa

    Walking Ottawa

    February 19, 2025

Blog Archives

Blog Categories

Tags

abstract abstraction art artists artmaking authenticity beauty birds black and white photograph car reflections colin wilson colour photograph creative process creativity faith fernando pessoa frame hermann hesse joel meyerowitz leonard cohen little people meaning mirrors montreal my shadow nihilism ontario ottawa outsider parliament pattern patterns photobook photography purpose quebec ray k. metzker reflections robert adams robert henri self shapes snow solitude statues street signs urban/street photography window reflections winter wonder

Blog newsletter

Subscribe to the newsletter to be notified when I publish a new blog post.

Pages
  • Home
  • About
  • A clean, well-lighted place
  • Miscellany
    • Photography and Art Quotes
    • Tutorials and Essays
    • Inspiring Photographers
      • Inspiring Black and White Photography: Henri Cartier-Bresson
      • Inspiring Black and White Photography: Henry Wessel
      • Inspiring Black and White Photography: Lee Friedlander
      • Inspiring Black and White Photography: Ray Metzker
  • Contact
  • Privacy Policy
  • Red Tiger
Galleries
  • Galleries
    • Red Tiger
    • Just du beau papier sur un mur moche
    • Mirrors and Windows
    • Poster Generations
    • Wolf Down Street
    • Welcome to Paradise
    • Window Shopping
    • Enchanted City
    • City Canvas
    • City Portraits
    • Walking on Diamonds
    • Grata Non Grata
    • You Are Here
    • Disconnected
Recent work/Photo blog
  • A clean, well-lighted place
RSS

RSS Feed

Copyright © 2025 | WordPress Theme by MH Themes