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Thinking about closed and open form pictures; or how old art history terms can still be useful

If you were to mention the term ‘formal analysis’ to an art historian today, you’d probably be told it’s passé. No one really tries to objectively compare one painting against another using formal concepts anymore. However, formal analysis—or the concepts that it identified—does still present some interesting ideas, especially for photographers. Swiss art historian Heinrich […]

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