Abstract photography may not be everyone's first choice – but it can make anyone a better photographer. And that comes down to three simple reasons. As a genre, abstract photography is incredibly ...

Here are three ways to make an abstract photograph, courtesy of the enormous Shape of Light show at Tate Modern. Take a picture of a slab of concrete in crazy closeup. Photograph beer bottle caps ...

In the early 20th century, as avant-garde painters broke with tradition by making their pictures abstract, Alvin Langdon Coburn set his sights on creating abstract photographs. At first he approached ...