Marina Paul

Type of Work: Photography

Contact Information

Email: marinapaulphoto@gmail.com

Website: www.marinapaulphotography.com

Facebook: @marinapaulphoto

Biography

This still life photograph is an inspiration and an appropriation of Paulette Taormina's "Seizing Beauty" book. Looking at the Renaissance and Flemish style still-life paintings, she photographs and recreates very similar scenery using flowers, fruit, vegetables, and antique ware, adding a personal mood and imagination to them, which can tell a story about a time and place.

Closely looking at her working the way she appropriates painting I chose to follow her steps and, at my turn ti appropriate her still-life photographs. To add a painterly mood and a sense of a different space, the use of "chiaroscuro" lighting, a painting technique that uses high tonal contrast between lights and darks, is prevalent throughout the entire series, where the objects are the story tellers.