Abstract photography may not be everyone's first choice – but it can make anyone a better photographer. And that comes down to three simple reasons. As a genre, abstract photography is incredibly ...

Photography’s uncanny ability to represent the world had such a profound impact on society in the early 20th century that its role in non-representative art has been overlooked. “Shape of Light”, Tate ...

In the early 20th century, as avant-garde painters broke with tradition by making their pictures abstract, Alvin Langdon Coburn set his sights on creating abstract photographs. At first he approached ...

Here are three ways to make an abstract photograph, courtesy of the enormous Shape of Light show at Tate Modern. Take a picture of a slab of concrete in crazy closeup. Photograph beer bottle caps ...