Photography: Construction or Composition?

Okay, so I'm on a photography kick this week, what can I say?
Although I think the more familiar and widely used term is composition, I couldn't help but notice the presence of characteristically bold, geometr elements in these black and white photographs:

Photograph by Damian Riehl

Both the Russian constructivist and the De Stijl movement explored abstraction with a distinct emphasis on geometric shapes and patterns, despite the fact that the intention behind these works was quite contradictory. This opposition can be attributed to Russian constructivism's association with propaganda and the needs of the state while the De Stijl movement was produced as a result of the desire to alleviate or counteract the chaotic effects of war.

Transfixed by Billy Barraclough

Futurism and Photography

Artists in the Futurist movement were fascinated by the expression of concepts such as continuous movement, simultaneity, speed and energy. They also attempted to express motion, energy, and cinematic sequence in their work, such as in Giacomo Balla's painting titled Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash (Meggs 255).

Giacomo Balla's Dynamism of a Dog
on a Leash was painted in 1912.

The year 1912 is also around the same time Francis Bruguiere began experimenting with multiple exposures in photography. Advances in photography provided another way for artists to capture or represent dynamic movement in space through a two-dimensional medium.

Shadow Knows by vishstudio

O by David