What is the best photograph of shadows?

Photographing shadows is often overlooked as a creative subject for our photography, and we can understand why. Any photographer, or photographic professional, will tell you that photography is all about light. That's true. But we see beauty in that little ugly duckling called shadows. read more

My favorite photographs of shadows are by George Brassaï, taken in nighttime Paris in the early 1930s and published in his 1933 Paris de nuit (Paris by Night). A Hungarian photographer who worked in France, Brassaï was a pseudonym for Gyula Halász. read more

Shadow is simply a figure formed behind an object when it is illuminated by light at an angle. In photography, an image without a shadow is often two-dimensional in shape. But with the addition of a third component, the shadow, this shape is transformed into a form. read more