This document discusses three key elements of photography - line, texture, and pattern. It defines each element and provides examples of photographers who utilize these elements effectively in their work. Lines create depth and movement, texture refers to surface qualities, and patterns are made up of lines and shapes. Students are assigned to find images from artists that demonstrate these three elements for a photography assignment.

1. Line, Texture, Pattern

2. • Effective images demand attention and
communicate feeling
• Photographer must utilise elements from
art and design
• Line, texture and pattern are three main
elements
• All your images for 1st assignment must
contain at least one

3. Line
• lines create depth in a
composition
• add dynamism to a photo
• attract attention to areas
of interest
• imply motion and create a
sense of direction or
orientation
• lines can be: leading,
vertical, horizontal,
diagonal, curved and
converging or implied.
Each one has a different
impact upon a
photograph and create a
certain mood
Alex Majoli
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4. Nikos Economopoulos
Martine Franck

5. Christopher Anderson
W. Eugene Smith

6. Andres Gursky

7. ROBERT CAPA
icp 405 Near Zhengzhou. June/July, 1938
Henri Cartier Bresson
Behind saint-lazaree station, Paris, 1932

8. Texture
• Texture refers to the
surface quality or "feel" of
an object - smooth,
rough, soft, etc. Textures
may be actual (felt with
touch - tactile) or implied
(suggested by the way an
artist has created the
work of art). Texture is
often emphasized in
oblique lighting as it
strikes the objects from
one side.
Bill Brandt

9. Ansel Adams

10. David Bailey
William Henry Fox Talbot

11. Helen Chadwick

12. Pattern
• Made up of Lines and
Shapes.
• In colour photography,
lines and shapes are
often formed entirely by
colour.
• Patterns exist almost
every where. You only
have to open your heart
and mind to discover
them
• Emphasis and break up
patterns
Bruce Webber

13. William Klien
Gregory Crewson

14. Susan Derges

15. Gustav Le Gray
Alec Soth

16. Renne Burri
David Allen Harvey

17. Task
• Head to the library and begin to research
into suitable artists that you feel show the
elements as well as that interest you
• You should have found at least one and
copied/scanned/took the book out (finish
as HW if not)
• Remember to reference