Still Life in Photography

"Like landscape or portraiture, still life is one of the great traditional art forms" (Martineau, 2010), I thought this book would be useful for me to read as I am taking still life images. Although I want my photographs to have an oil painting kind of feel to them 'Still Life in Photography' got me thinking of other ways I can take pictures of the pomegranate.

This image entitled "The Sands of Time" (Thomas Richard Williams) really spoke to me due to its symbolism. Although the metaphor of death is obvious, it's incredibly effective in this eerie frame; although made in 1850 where the artist had no choice to use black and white, I feel like colour would distract the audience from the message. Life and Death is black and white, and you can't escape death.

I chose this image titled "Still Life with Three Vases and Flowers" (Frederick Dellenbaugh) due to the vanitass feel of the photograph that could definitely be an influence for my work. The lighting is beautiful and classic and reminds me of window light coming in which is definitely a look I'm going for with my work.

Still Life, Paris (André Kertész) gave a similar feeling of the second image in this post, it is classically framed and seems to use window lighting too. I feel that the softness of window light in my work will juxtapose the message I am putting across with the pomegranate. 

Still life with mixed fruit, Paul Wolf and Alfred Tritschler