Lynn Stern
PHOTO ABSTRACTIONS
by Donald Kuspit
The first photograph was abstract, however inadvertently. It was made by
Joseph Niépce in 1826 or 1827. Here is Douwe Draaisma’s description of it: “The exposure time was a full eight hours. In this way an ‘impossible’ image was created: the opposite walls have both caught the sunlight. The afternoon sun erased the morning shadows.”(1)
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