ABSTRACT
The word morphic is from the Greek word morphos, which means "form" or "shape". This chapter presents an overview of morphics and examines the different forms objects can take, how to photograph those forms, and how forms might look like other forms. Biomorphism, a term coined by Alfred Barr, began as an art movement in the 1930s. Photographs, paintings, sculpture, and architecture that exhibit biomorphic forms refer to or evoke living forms, such as plants and the human body. Anthropomorphic refers to objects that can take on a human form. Zoomorphic is the term used to describe inanimate objects that appear to take on animal forms. The word anamorphic refers to an image that has been intentionally distorted in its shape, although the viewer can still visually imagine its original form and perhaps even optically or digitally restore it to that form. Mixing two types of patterns suggests some kind interaction or comparison between human-made and natural forces.
