About Still Life Photography
The depiction of objects as still life images goes back into antiquity. In more recent times, still life paintings by the Dutch Masters are how many people associate Still Life images. Artists such as Michelangelo Caravaggio (1575-1610), Clara Peeters (1594-1621) and Giovanna Garzoni (1600-1670). See, www.dailyartmagazine.com, Dutch Still Life Explained in 6 Famous Painters.
Right from the earliest days of photography the creation of Still Life Images has been a significant area of interest. The earliest surviving Still Life photograph, titled “The Artists Studio,” was taken by Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre in 1837, two years before he announces his Daguerreotype process to the world. See. www.smarthistory.org.
Today, Still Life photographs are everywhere and are a major part of many professional photgaphers business, photographing individual or groups of products for the cosmetic, industrial and food industries for advertising purposes. Even the photographing of products for sales catalogues could be classed as Still Life photography. You already do it yourself when you take a picture of something on your smart phone for sale on one of the auction websites.
There is however another side of Still Life Photography and that is, Fine Art Still Life. The pioneers of early Fine Art Photography are the Victorian photographers, Julia Margaret Cameron and Oscar Gustave Rejlander. ‘Two Ways of Life’. by Rejlander is an early example. See, www.twowaysof life. The Pictorialist movement of 1855 with photographers like F. Holland Day and Alfred Stieglitz advancing the movement. See www.theartstory.org
Today, Fine Art Still Life photographs are created not to sell something but to sell the actual photograph. or a copy of it. Searching the web will lead you to various website selling Still Life photographs from numerous photographs. There are also individual photographers websites, like mine where you can purchase original, limited edition photographs by highly talented photographs.
