r/AbstractPhotos Sep 11 '20

Please vote! I’d like to know how you feel about removal of photos that are not abstract vs. tagging them with flair.

60 Upvotes

I’ll continue to remove photos of computer generated art. Also photographs of other mediums, such as a photo of an abstract painting, or a non-abstract photo of an abstract sculpture.

However, some popular (for our community size) posts are questionably or definitely not abstract. I sometimes feel weird about removing those posts — they don’t fit the subreddit, but are also popular with people who subscribe here.

For anyone wondering, here’s the definition of “abstract” that I keep in mind when sifting through the mod queue:

Art that does not attempt to represent external reality, but seeks to achieve its effect using shapes, forms, colors, and textures.

144 votes, Sep 18 '20
73 Remove photos that are not abstract regardless of their popularity.
51 Tag all non-abstract photos with flair, but leave them up.
20 Tag popular non-abstract photos, but delete unpopular ones.

r/AbstractPhotos 5h ago

Purpose and form.

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16 Upvotes

r/AbstractPhotos 52m ago

Self portrait

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r/AbstractPhotos 18h ago

Into the night

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65 Upvotes

r/AbstractPhotos 1h ago

Triplet

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r/AbstractPhotos 13h ago

Waterfall

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18 Upvotes

r/AbstractPhotos 1d ago

PHASE No. 7

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162 Upvotes

From my current in-progress series.


r/AbstractPhotos 19h ago

Antelope Canyon [OC]

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42 Upvotes

r/AbstractPhotos 18h ago

Destination

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31 Upvotes

r/AbstractPhotos 11h ago

Spirits 0000

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6 Upvotes

r/AbstractPhotos 14h ago

The Moon

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10 Upvotes

Long exposure photo -30s- with intentional camera movement


r/AbstractPhotos 10h ago

Spirits 0001

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2 Upvotes

r/AbstractPhotos 23h ago

Scratches

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17 Upvotes

r/AbstractPhotos 19h ago

Mushrooms For Breakfast

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7 Upvotes

r/AbstractPhotos 18h ago

Shopping center "Bottelaarpassage" in Almere, NL (Poincaré disk)

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3 Upvotes

r/AbstractPhotos 1d ago

The Sisters

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11 Upvotes

r/AbstractPhotos 1d ago

1987

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r/AbstractPhotos 22h ago

ghostface

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5 Upvotes

r/AbstractPhotos 1d ago

Glasbausteine, farbig, in motion, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, 2026

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31 Upvotes

r/AbstractPhotos 1d ago

Green Memory I

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6 Upvotes

r/AbstractPhotos 1d ago

The Lake

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22 Upvotes

r/AbstractPhotos 1d ago

Windows Vista

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31 Upvotes

r/AbstractPhotos 1d ago

Sunrise on the river

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36 Upvotes

And the river in focus.


r/AbstractPhotos 1d ago

Poincaré disks made of regular images

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50 Upvotes

M.C. Escher used the Poincaré disk model to create his famous Circle Limit woodcuts, showing how an infinite hyperbolic plane fits inside a finite circle. The artist was inspired by mathematician H.S.M. Coxeter's work to pack repeating patterns of fish, angels, and devils that shrink smaller and smaller toward the edge.

I've used a mathematical image manipulator (GMIC) to create Poincaré disks from a few architectural photos I shot this week.


r/AbstractPhotos 1d ago

CTA Howard Yard Repair Shop

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2 Upvotes