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Abstraction of light


 
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Contents

Introduction
1Light is the shape and play of my thought
2Abstractions with light
3Tamers of light
Vorticism
4Vorticism
Photographers
5Alvin Langdon Coburn: Vorticism
6Jaromir Funke: Abstract compositions
7Arthur Siegel: Lucidagrams
8Arthur Siegel: Light abstractions
9Henry Holmes Smith: Light Study (taken 1946, later colour prints)
10Peter Keetman: Abstractions of light
11David Douglas Duncan: Prismatics
12Abelardo Morell: Light abstractions
13Werner Schnelle: Light Works
14Michael Jackson: Luminograms (2015)

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