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Using rhythm and pattern to tell a story: repetition can create patterns that tie an image together, helping to convey character and meaning.

Publication: Communication World
Publication Date: 01-SEP-09
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Using rhythm and pattern to tell a story: repetition can create patterns that tie an image together, helping to convey character and meaning.(photocritique)

Article Excerpt
I often try to compose my photographs around elements that echo each other, to strengthen organization and to provide coherence and cohesion. Photographs can express a rhythmic beat-very much like a piece of music--that can carry the eye into and through a picture. Rhythmic repetition can also create patterns, forming a two-dimensional shape that ties an image together, helping to give it character and meaning. In this column, I offer three examples of photographs in which I've used rhythm and pattern to tell a story.

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I made the first example (below) in a library in Singapore, where a man was working on a...

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