Laura Letinsky is a Canadian photographer born in Winnipeg, and is best known for her still life work. Her work has no figures in it and is normally the aftermath of a meal of some sort whether it be a dinner party or brunch. Letinsky said that her interest in food came from her love for the art genre and still life. She says that her images explore “the problem of the illusion of perfection.” She also describes them as incomplete stories.
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Jan Groover was born in Plainfield, New Jersey. She studied painting and drawing in Pratt institute and received a bachelor of fine arts degree in 1965. She won many competitions like the National Endowment of the arts during her years as a photographer. Groover and her husband moved to France in 1991 where she shifted off of still life and on to everyday objects in France. unfortunately she died on the 1st of January 2012 after being ill for a while. At first she was doing arts but in 1970 she switched over to photography as she said "with photography I don't have to make things up. Her composition and stillness shows her formal composition. Groover chose to photograph in colour witch was uncommon and was still trying to make a name for itself in the community. However she eventually blew up over her Kitchen sink work in a exhibition.
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André Kertész, 'Fork', 1928
André Kertész created the image ‘Fork’ in 1928 and during then he lived in Paris. it was created when he mixed with artists from the Dada movement. Kertész image is deliberately simple because he's paying attention to the composition as he wants to emphasise the forks geometry and form making the fork more than just a utensil. Kertész thought that photos should reveal the true nature of objects. Whilst in Paris he felt like an outside as he didn't know the language which explains 'Fork' by being simple and not seeming to have a voice or say anything about him. He also represented his loneliness through the subject of his photographs, meaning he was able to combine formal composition with a strong emotive charge. Henri Cartier Bresson said "Each time Kertész's shutter clicks I hear his heart beating" |
Barth says that most photographers use the camera as a pointing device and that their images present the subject and content as the same thing. what she means is that when taking a photo the subject is normally something that is similar to the content. When Uta Barth takes a photo certain criteria goes through her head of what and why she's taking this photo one of these criteria is that when the viewer of the photo sees they let go of what's being depicted which is primarily done by the focusing. When using a camera in high school Ute Barth realised that she wasn't that observant and that the camera was teaching her how to see. Barth normally takes her photos within her home or inside in general.
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Edward Weston used a Graflex camera. He did this so he could view his photo before he started the long process of taking a photo. He would of wanted this so he can make sure he was precise about his framing and aperture of the picture which followed his philosophy. And a problem from this is that when a car drove by and shook the house he would have to re-do the photo. When taking his photos of the peppers he used an aperture of F240 and used natural light and took 4-6 hours to complete the photo. Also because of the long exposure it gave the peppers strange lighting and incredible detail, because of the natural light.
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