History of still life

Examples of work

Karl Blossfeldt• Karl Blossfeldt was a German photographer, sculptor, teacher and artist

who worked in Berlin, Germany. He is best known for his close-up photographs of plants and living things, published in 1929 as Unformed der Kunst. He was born on June 13th, 1864, in Schielo, Germany and Died on December 9th, in 1932, Berlin, Germany.

His subjects were plants and living things. He was inspired, as was his father, by nature and the way in which plants grow.

Basic info

• A still life is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which may be either natural or man-made

Our Still life• For our still life we shot in the studio, to do this we had split lightings and

overhead lighting methods. The subjects where apples and bottles. We also did some natural light still life.

Conclusion

• Still life is a form of media used to represent objects of an inanimate style. We can light the subjects by using split lighting and other methods that will give a good tone to the objects. A background is important in a still life picture because it can either tell a story or it can draw focus to the lighting of the objects.