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Still Life Photography

A2 Level Photography

30/11/2011

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Still Life Photography

Aim: Understand Still Life photography techniques and artists.

Learning Objectives

1. To be aware of the principles underpinning composition.2. To understand the developments in the still life genre.3. Produce a series of still life photographs inspired from

artist research.

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Brainstorm:

Compile a list of Still Life photographers and identify compositional techniques used.

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Still Life PhotographyStill Life Photography

Still Life images can be just about anything that doesn't move. The definition of a still life subject is an inanimate object but other subjects are loosely termed as still life as well. These include flowers, food, etc. They are life forms but they don't move.

Source:http://www.schoolofphotography.com/courses/free-photography-tips-and-articles/19-still-life-photography.html

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Composition…

Composition, is a key element often used in still life photography, for this reason we will highlight a range of compositional rules applied, these rules are generic and can clearly be used in a wide range of photography genres.

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Still Life Photography

Composition…

Composition, is a key element often used in still life photography, for this reason we will highlight a range of compositional rules applied, these rules are generic and can clearly be used in a wide range of photography genres.

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Still Life Photography

Identify the compositional technique used

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Still Life Photography

Identify the compositional technique used

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Still Life Photography

Identify the compositional technique used

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Still Life Photography

Identify the compositional technique used

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Still Life Photography

Identify the compositional technique used

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Still Life PhotographyStudent task.

•Construct two still life photographs.

•Utilise studio lighting for one image and natural lighting for the second

•Download images and edit in Photoshop

•Consider compositional techniques in your photography.

Complete task and present by 05/12/2011

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Still Life Photography•Henry Fox Talbot

•Photograms

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Still Life Photography•Henry Fox Talbot

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Still Life Photography•Immogen Cunningham

Agave Design 1, 1920s

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Still Life Photography•Immogen Cunningham

•Starting in the 1920s, she began making sharply focused, close up studies of plant life and unconventional views of industrial structures and modern architecture. Concerned with light, form, and abstract pattern, these photographs established her as one of the pioneers of modernist photography on the West Coast.

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Still Life Photography•Immogen Cunningham

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Still Life Photography•Laura Letinsky

The still life genre is unavoidably a commentary on society’s material-mindedness and the way images promote a kind of promise of attainability. I am not interested though in the allure of the meal that awaits an unseen viewer’s consumption. Instead, I photograph the remains of meals and its refuse so as to investigate the relationships between ripeness and decay, delicacy and awkwardness, control and haphazardness, waste and plenitude, pleasure and sustenance. Throughout my long-term photographic practice I wish to engage the photograph’s transformative qualities, changing what is typically overlooked into something splendid in its resilience. I want to look at what is “after the fact,” at what (ma)lingers, at what persists, and by inference, at what is gone.

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Still Life Photography•Laura letinsky

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Still Life Photography•Laura letinsky

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Still Life Photography•Edward Weston

•it strikes me that what he actually did, more often than not, was make the commonplace wondrous and beautiful. In Weston's still lives, for instance, the tonal quality of his black-and-white prints imbue everyday objects, both natural and man-made, with a heightened presence that sometimes makes them seem almost unreal. In his journals, he wrote that his aim was to render "the very substance and quintessence of the thing itself, whether it be polished steel or palpitating flesh".

••Sean O'Hagan•guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 18 August 2010 16.49 BST

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Still Life Photography•Edward Weston

Pepper, 1930 Edward Weston negative, Cole Weston print

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Still Life Photography•Edward Weston

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Still Life Photography•Ori Gherst

Pomegranate, 2006

Using extremely high-speed cameras, Ori Gersht has recreated in the film ‘Pomegranate’ a Renaissance like still life composition. Whereas such paintings attempted to preserve motionless moments frozen in time, Gersht’s compositions are obstructed by fast and violent intervention. In ‘Pomegranate’, a film that references Juan Sanchez Cotan’s 17th century still life and Harold Edgerton’s stroboscopic photography, a high velocity bullet flies across the frame in slow motion and obliterates a suspended pomegranate, bursts it into open and wheels it slowly in the air like a smashed violated mouth spraying seeds. This peaceful image transform into blood shade. In doing so the film establishes a dialogue between stillness and motion, peace and violence.

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Still Life PhotographyPomegranite 2006.

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Still Life Photography.•Zachary Zavislak

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Still Life Photography•Jonathon Knowles

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Still Life Photography•Jonathon Knowles

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Still Life Photography•Irving Penn

Cigarette 17 New York, 1972

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Still Life PhotographyCigarette Butts and Sidewalk Debris

•Not surprisingly, he concentrated on producing photographs intended to be viewed as art. In 1975 the Museum of Modern Art presented a small exhibition of his recent work printed using the platinum process: a series of greatly magnified images of cigarette butts, transformed from gutter discards to near landmark status, and showing Mr. Penn’s penchant for straying far from the politesse of his fashion and portrait pictures. The cigarette butts were followed by a series focused on other forms of sidewalk debris,

Irving Penn, Fashion Photographer, Is Dead at 92. New York Times ANDY GRUNDBERGPublished: October 8, 2009

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Still Life Photography•Irving Penn

After-dinner GamesNew York, 1947

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Still Life Photography•Macro lens

•Macro photography is close-up photography of usually very small subjects.

•A macro lens literally opens up a whole new world of photographic subject matter. It can even cause one to think differently about everyday objects. However, despite these exciting possibilities

•http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/macro-lenses.htm

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Still Life Photography•Macro lens