Day 47: Crop to Abstraction

Cropping changes meaning. Crop a photograph tightly enough and it stops being a picture of something and becomes pure colour, line and form. Abstraction asks the viewer to feel before they understand, and the moment they recognise the source can be a powerful reveal.

Objective. Use extreme cropping to turn photography into abstraction.

Take a photograph and crop it until it becomes abstract. Use the result in a poster for a contemporary art gallery.

• Use your own photograph
• The original subject should not be immediately recognisable
• Minimal typography

• A compelling abstract image
• Considered relationship between image and type
• A gallery-appropriate tone

Make a series of three crops from one photograph that work together.