I have always appreciated photographers who create minimalistic images. Those images that usually have a single subject in the frame surrounded by a lot of negative space. It seems to make the subject more dramatic. For example, one of my images that I always enjoy looking at is this one..
It is a picture of the Pelee Passage lighthouse taken from the east side of Pelee Island. The foreground contains some rock jutting up above the waterline. This is also a long exposure image.
For some reason, I like it. I think it becomes more dramatic when you can imagine the lighthouse out there surrounded by the vastness of Lake Erie. The image promotes that kind of drama.
It made me think about other genres of art where such negative space is effective. When a speaker delivers a speech and pauses at the right time to make a point. Rests in music are highly effective to create greater emotion in the score. Arvo Pärt and Philip Glass are two contemporary composers that come to mind who create minimalistic music scores. In fact, elimination of colour in an image in creating a black and white photograph is, itself, a minimalistic style of photography.
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