Still Life in Photography - Hardcover

Martineau, Paul

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1606060333 ISBN 13: 9781606060339

Publisher: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2010

Synopsis

Still life is one of the great traditional art forms. The first still-life photograph was created around 1827, more than a decade before the news of photography’s invention was announced in Paris and London in 1839. This volume surveys some of the innovative ways photographers have explored the traditional genre of still life from photography’s earliest years to the present day.

The introductory essay is followed by an illuminating sequence and juxtaposition of plates selected from the J. Paul Getty Museum’s collection. Still life has served as both a conventional and an experimental form during periods of significant aesthetic and technological change. Illustrating that here are nineteenth-century masterpieces by practitioners such as Hippolyte Bayard and Roger Fenton, twentieth-century examples that include the diverse styles of Baron Adolph de Meyer, Irving Penn, and Edward Weston, and a sampling of contemporary artists, some recalling styles from the past. The current revival of interest in the genre comes as the digital age is transforming the medium.

About this title

From the Author

Part of a medium format series of thematic books that survey the Getty Museum's collection of photographs, Still Life in Photography features 80 plates along with a brief, but insightful essay intended to introduce the reader to the major aesthetic and technical developments that have shaped the genre.  

About the Author

Paul Martineau is assistant curator in the Department of Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum.

Edition details

• Publisher: J. Paul Getty Museum
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1606060333
• ISBN 13: 9781606060339
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 112