Straight photography

Through Alfred Stieglitz's dedicated photographic work of a half century, he tirelessly promoted photography as a fine art, gathering around him first Pictorialist and then modernist photographers.

Everything and everybody has a shadow, and all of them look different depending on what angle the light is coming from. But sometimes shadows get tired of living in, well, our shadows, and so they decide to forge their own identity by taking on secret lives of their own. Check out the list below to see what we mean. From secret squirrels and invisible dragons to a camouflaged Rambo and even a hidden Donald Trump, the shadows below, compiled by Bored Panda, will change the way you look at the…

Whether shooting street photography or art for art’s sake, the late Chinese artist spent a lifetime honing his evocative style

Flickriver - view images as a 'river of photos' and more...

Vitaliy Vasylevskyy A Lifetime Photography

paul strand plays with shadows again and uses a deep depth of field with interesting rule of thirds

Paul Strand. Abstraction, Porch Shadows, Connecticut. 1916. Gelatin silver print. 13 1/8 × 9 1/16" (33.3 × 23 cm). Gift of Arthur M. Bullowa. 693.1978.2. © Aperture Foundation Inc., Paul Strand Archive. Photography

view of one of the towers though a spiral staircase..

A good composition is essential to creating a remarkable shot. There are many composition tools that you can utilize to improve the composition of your photography. Leading lines is one such technique whereby the viewer's attention is drawn to the lines that lead directly to the main subject of the photograph. This post is a collection of some photographs that make great use of leading lines in their composition. As you will see, leading lines can be a wonderful composition tool when doing…