Abstract Flags - US

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About Abstract Flags - US

These are abstract flags - impressions of flags without actually being flags. Make sense? DO NOT JUST POST A PHOTO OF A FLAG!!

We invite photos that critique and offer thoughtful commentary on flags as icons and all else that a nation's flag evokes.

I have intentionally limited this group to US flags. Why?
#1, there's already a group called Abstract Flags which I strongly encourage people to join.
#2, I think there's a vigorous conversation to be had specifically about the American flag and all that it represents in this day and age.

Not sure whether your photo fits in here? This photo by Joel Meyerowitz is one of the main images that inspired this group.



In an interview, Meyerowitz was asked about this photo. The interviewer, Lawrence Weschler, remarked, "I immediately read it as a kind of deconstructivist riff on an American flag, a kind of Cubist American flag, with the redness and the blueness and the whiteness, the blue-and-white rectangle in the upper left hand corner, the red stripes. Did that feel that way to you as you were taking it?"

Meyerowitz replied, "Absolutely. This is October. I call it Autumn Afternoon, because
the quality of the day was one of those pristine days where it feels good to be alive. In fact, I saw it as a red-white-and-blue day. It was a jumbled kind of flag, and I definitely felt the flag power, the call of the flag, there. Without seeing stars and stripes, but seeing the blue sky, the white clouds, the red buildings. Yeah, it was a striped,
glorious moment.... Take a breath, you take a picture. But it definitely registered flaglike."

Thanks for visiting! Enjoy.