I`ve just found some time to have a read through a book (Terence Wright - The Photography Handbook) I had for a few weeks now and I`ve come across something interesting already (after 5 pages, I`d say that`s fast!). Just a short entry, as I`m going to have a read through in more detail on the subject this weekend. Basically, it is about photography and the three main aesthetic approaches:
realism - concerned with the subject of photography (in other words, who is it that you frame to tell your story)
formalism - shifts the focus away from the subject, to the response the overall composition elicits from the viewer (having had a quick look at some works, it is quite clear in some of them that they lack the classic `subject`)
expressionism - is looking at what might have determined the taking of the photo in the first place.
Really interesting to consider for the composition of the shots in films as well...Food for thought
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