Abstract

The evolution of photography from a descriptive tool to an autonomous art form finds its most radical expression in abstraction. Long before the digital era, pioneers like Alvin Langdon Coburn used "Vortographs" to strip the image of its subject, focusing instead on pure form, light, and geometry. Luminous-Lint maps this complex lineage, connecting early chemical experiments to the mid-century avant-garde.

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