Paper III

Untitled (Paper III). Nikon D7100. 105 mm Nikon Macro. ISO 200. 1/3 sec at f/6.3. Copyright Joanne Mason 2015.

Continuing to explore photographs of (crumpled/folded) paper… The interesting thing – or one interesting thing – about this is that the image is abstract in that we are unlikely to recognize it readily as paper upon first viewing, but not abstract in that it’s an accurate and unretouched depiction of the subject. Even if/when we do recognize the image as crumpled paper, it’s a view we rarely see. Photography does this often – It renders a seemingly familiar everyday object in a completely new way, creating an unfamiliar image, but doing it in a photographic way – i.e., accurately depicting the subject to start with.