Line, Texture and Value

Types of Line, Texture and Contrast Detail: Tactile, an invitation to touch. The detail in the texture is the dominant message of the photo. Information: Where the textures are used to communicate or express what the photograph is about. Drama: Where texture is used to spice up the image eith visually or conceptually.

Tactile Detail: A type of texture is in the detail of the object’s surface, made possible by the type of light used. The tactile quality is the most important aspect of this kind of texture. The actual object is of lesser importance. Karl Blossfeld

Rough Texture : Detail Aaron Siskind

Imogen Cunningham

Texture, Value: Detail Robert Mappelthorpe

Edward Weston

Aaron Siskind

Contrast and texture Erik Johannson

Edward Weston

Information: This type of texture in photography uses texture to help communicate information about an image. What is the information here? What is the photograph about?

Julia Margaret Cameron

F. Douglas Line and texture are two of the seven elements of art. As the basic language of visual arts, they describe and illustrate how the elements interact and depend on each other to make a unified image.

Value - Information Margaret Bourke White

Sally Mann Line

G Mumford Line, Texture, Value

James Van Der Zee

Texture Line Information Alfred Stieglitz

Bernice Abbot Line, Value

Robert Frank

Drama: Another approach to texture photography, is where the texture is used to add drama to an image Ralph Crane

Richard Avedon

Texture Drama Kyle Thompson

Line - Drama Paul Caponigro

Henri Cartier Bresson Texture, Line Information

William Wegman Line

Annie Liebovitz