WHAT IS ABSTRACT PHOTOGRAPHY?Abstract photography focuses on shape, form, colour, texture and pattern. Usually, the viewer of the photograph often cannot see the whole object in the photograph and also more than likely the subject of the photograph is only a small part of the meaning of the photograph.

Eddy De Azevedo is a French photographer who is inspired by Mark Rothko and 1950s color field paintings. Azevedo uses everyday materials such as fabrics, broken lighters, bottle caps, books and paper to his photographs. The way that Eddy De Azevedo frames his pictures (he puts his collections of objects into a shape that perfectly fits the frame of the camera. He uses ‘Office’ for paper, ‘Dressing’ for fabric and ‘Walking my Dog’ for objects that he has collected whilst taking his dog out for a walk.

EDDY DE AZEVEDO

From the photograph (on the left) you can tell that Eddy De Azevedo uses layers in his photographs, for example with stacked paper, stacks of books. He seeks and accomplishes an effect where the viewer forgets about the objects in the photograph and focuses on the colors used instead.

From this comparison you can see that there are a lot of similaraties such as colour and composition of both photograph and painting.

AZEVEDO ROTHKO

MY OPINION

I have chosen the photographer Eddy De Azevedo because although the photographs Azevedo takes are abstract he takes an abstract approach to abstract, just as the artist Rothko does. I like how he uses a lot of different colours in a consecutive order of shades. I am going to re-create his work by creating layers with objects like pens, books, bus and train tickets and fabrics.

MY RESPONSEFor my response to Eddy De Azevedo’s work I have tried to recreate some of his photographs using coloured paper, highlighters, and objects from my bag including my phone, train tickets and make-up.

MY OPINION OF MY RESPONSEI like how my responses have turned out because the collections of items I have photographed reflect the work of Azevedo creates in quite an accurate way. However if I were to do this again I would try using different objects like bottle caps or lighters like the original photographer does also using similar colors for one photograph in a similar style of the photographer.