Beautiful from Nothing
The enemy of photography is the convention, the fixed rules of ‘how to do’.
The salvation of photography comes from the experiment.
—Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
Make nine photographs of a sheet(s) of white and/or black paper. You can bend, tear, crease, cut, roll or crumple it; you can modify the sheet(s) in any way, but always and only use the paper and the light, not other elements except a table or a uniform surface as a support base. Use natural or artificial light. Use the same format for all the images. Explore the lighting and change the lighting for each photograph, if desired.
Your goal is to make something beautiful from nothing.
Consider the following:
Equivalents
Abstraction
Expressionism
Line, Space, Shape, Form
Chiaroscuro
Example(s):
(This assignment is a variation of the Paper Assignment by Charles Arnold)
The enemy of photography is the convention, the fixed rules of ‘how to do’.
The salvation of photography comes from the experiment.
—Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
Make nine photographs of a sheet(s) of white and/or black paper. You can bend, tear, crease, cut, roll or crumple it; you can modify the sheet(s) in any way, but always and only use the paper and the light, not other elements except a table or a uniform surface as a support base. Use natural or artificial light. Use the same format for all the images. Explore the lighting and change the lighting for each photograph, if desired.
Your goal is to make something beautiful from nothing.
Consider the following:
Equivalents
Abstraction
Expressionism
Line, Space, Shape, Form
Chiaroscuro
Example(s):
(This assignment is a variation of the Paper Assignment by Charles Arnold)