The seventy-second video of "Short Monologues by Platon Rivellis on Photography and Art" (2nd series, 2017).

Information from real life included in the photograph below, which has been transformed into values of different weight within the photograph, and which altogether constitute an absolute proposition, can also consist of sections without information. This was most evident during the era of black and white photography because white, black, and gray are areas with zero information, while it is more difficult to achieve this removal of specific elements with color, which is more realistic. Nevertheless, it also happens there and these areas which do not contain information must acquire significant value in the photographic frame so that not for a single second can the viewer think they could be missing. If an absolute black or an absolute white is missing from a good photograph, all other information collapses because the poetic dimension collapses as well. Also, all these elements that are transformed into a four-sided frame are unified under the photographer's click. They must have a dominant dimension, this is the dominant dimension with which the viewer comes into contact at first sight. It would be said to be the event that became a photograph. It is the photographic event that did not exist in reality. And this must exist and then this event, this is very important, must find its opposites within the frame. It must create visual interest, visual conflicts without giving answers. When I say opposites, I do not mean semantically opposite, I do not mean contradictory messages that will give intellectual interest to the viewer. A visual tension must be created in the photograph and this is created if we juxtapose things that seemingly overturn the dominant dimension. An example from cinema will help because there we have the narration and the script which are more accessible to our understanding, if there is a couple in love, if there is a great love this will be highlighted and will give us the opportunity to develop the emotion when there is also something opposite to it, when there is a rejection, a hatred, a death something That negates romantic happiness. This cannot be done in photography because its function is completely different, it does not have a narrative it has a description but it must be done with visual means, with photographic means Then the photograph will become much more significant. Also, the word abstraction, the word abstraction in art is an important word And for a long period, there was confusion because abstraction was considered only the non-description of clear objects. Abstraction is when we reach such a point of simplicity that nothing is superfluous and the photograph contains only the important, all the important and no superfluous. Thus, the process with which the photographer must familiarize themselves is not so much to add as to remove, to remove from the real world and even from a finished photograph. Then the image will be much stronger.