Photographers:
Connections:

Abstraction of scale


 
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Contents

Introduction
1Abstractions of scale
2Abstraction of the small
3Abstraction of the large
4Abstraction and the loss of scale
5Abstractions of scale with landscapes
Photographers
6Minor White: Equivalents, similes and visual metaphors
7Rose-Lynn Fisher: Bee

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