In this task i was required to create photographs in response the Letinsky's work, by using appropriate subjects and layout.
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Laura Letinsky photographs the imperfect mess after a meal or tea, which she says explores "the problem of the illusion of perfection." Her subjects include stained tablecoths, half-eaten cake, dirty cutlery and half-eaten lollipops. She created a book, 'Hardly More Than Ever', which features photographs of her from 1997 to 2004. These photographs included scattered cake crumbs, porcelin stained with blood orange juice, and a chocolate bunny half unwrapped. They are incomplete stories, and viewers are left longing to meet Letinsky's missing revealers.
Letinsky has used natural lighting to her advantage to create a brighter atmosphere in her images. |
André Kertész was a Hungarian photographer who emerged as one of the most influential practitioners of the medium.
He focused on emotional impact rather than technique and looks at objects from various angles until the picture elements compose themselves. Simple subject matter such as a fork resting against the rim of a bowl placed on a table allows Kertész to focus on the formal composition of the photograph. Kertész elevates the photograph above a simple record of kitchen utensils by emphasising the beauty in the fork’s simple geometry and form. His choice of black and white further emphasises this. In this task i was required to recreate my own version of Andre Kertesz 'fork' using forks, an A4 sheet of paper, a light source and a camera (or camera phone).
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Edward Weston (1886-1958) was a 20th century photographer who has been called one of the most innovative and influential of all American photographers and a master of photography. His career spanned 40 years and he photographed an expansive set of subjects, including landscapes, still-life, nudes, portraits, and genre scenes.
Some of Edward Weston’s most famous work was close-up images of vegetables and fruit, photographed in a way that captured the “essence” of the object, taking them out of context. His manipulation of light to highlight shape, texture and form helped bring photography out of the shadow of painting and stand on it’s own as a credible art form. Through these photographs he transformed his subjects into abstractions of shapes and patterns, that are almost unrecognisable. |
In her ongoing series titled 'Perspective', photographer Suzanne Saroff creates fractured and skewed images of common foods as seen through glasses and vases filled with water and glass objects. The images play with concepts of light and shadow resulting in distorted still life's that appear almost like digital glitches.
With tools and techniques such as refraction, directional light, and bold colours, her photograph change domestic objects and foods. Saroff shares that “Taking shape via shadows or fragmentations, my subjects often become more than the singular and expected version of themselves.” |