Blog post #5a

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Response to The Critical Eye - Abstraction in Photography: Picture Nothing

In this chapter, Rexer discusses a rather unfamiliar way of taking pictures and how photography can be abstract. He states that the act of taking a photo itself is abstract in its own way:

"The act of carving an instant out of temporal  context and holding it open produces something truly foreign to experience."

I find this statement to be very interesting as it sheds a new light into photography, a perspective that I have never thought of before. Rexer supports his claim that photography can be abstract by providing the example of Ellen Carey's Mourning Wall. It is true photography in its own sense, since it consists of pictures taken from a polaroid camera. And, instead of capturing representation of the real worlds, Carey decided to capture an abstract surface, giving viewers the opportunity to see beyond the images itself.

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