Edward Weston
Pepper, 1930
Edward Weston negative, Cole Weston print
About Edward Weston:
Born-March 24th 1886, Illinois
Grew up in Chicago
Started photographing at the age of 16
Moved to California
Attended Illinois college of photography
Died-January 1st 1958
Edward Weston was a modernist, American photographer who photographed everyday objects most natural and manmade. He uses film photography and his prints were described as vintage.
The theme of this piece of work is still life, although he has captures this pepper in a very abstract way. His subject matter is vey realistic but his work is clearly set-up. The composition of this photograph is a close up of a pepper that fills the whole frame but is not a macro shot of the fruit. He works with film cameras and black and white film, his work is very intense and moody because of the extreme tones of grey and black.
An article in the Guardian newspaper described his work as 'makes them seem unreal because of the tonal quality'.
Edward Weston wrote in his sketch book about this piece 'It's classic, completely satisfying- a pepper- but more than a pepper' he said this referring to the abstract quality his still life's possessed.
I like this photograph because it isn't an ordinary still life photograph, it is some what controversial and abstract as the the pepper looks unreal. When I fist saw this photograph I thought it was a drawing because of the shading and dark tones to the image.
No comments:
Post a Comment