Tag: shapes

UIG’s Aerial Photography Collection

2nd October 2023.Reading time 8 minutes.

Gaspard-Felix Tournachon is widely believed to be the first producer of aerial photography.  Tournachon, a balloonist, took images mainly of Paris, France in the late 1850’s.  The earliest surviving aerial photograph, however, was one created in 1860.  James Wallace Black and Samuel Archer King’s aerial photograph was titled “Boston, as the Eagle and the Wild Goose See It”. […]

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Jon Bower’s Abstract Photography

10th April 2023.Reading time 3 minutes.

Abstract photographers produce conceptual images that frequently do not associate with the tangible and physical components in the photograph.  These highly conceptual photographs are not easily created – they often require technical mastery of lighting for example.  Abstract photographers need to see what others miss within the shadows, forms and shapes of the everyday items they shoot. […]

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Natural Patterns

28th November 2022.Reading time 3 minutes.

By Francesca Lungarotti A pattern is a repeating decorative design, and the realm of nature is full of them. It seems trivial but it is quite surprising to observe how many design matrices exist around us that were created without any human intervention. Throughout history patterns have always influenced art and architecture.  Photography is the […]

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