Urban environments can be a frenetic mass of contrasts, vibrant or mundane, lively or eerie, beautiful or drab. For a photographer, it’s easy enough to capture how places like this look, but it’s more ...

A master of illusion, Ms. Crane transformed the quotidian into the quirky by distorting images through a variety of formats. By Sam Roberts Barbara Crane, an abstract photographer whose camera ...

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 ...