Video: Holy Simplicity: The Flower Series by Andrew Zuckerman
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Photo Andrew Zuckerman from his series "Flower" allow the viewer to appreciate the natural beauty and grace of flowers in a new way. In his pictures, even the most ordinary-looking plants begin to look more dignified and more luxurious than any image on a holiday postcard.
Andrew shoots flowers in the same way as he shot numerous celebrities before: white background, close-up. Along with the technology, the amount of attention and respect he gives to the subject remains the same.
Throughout the last year Andrew Zuckerman systematically studied the flora, visited numerous museums and private collectors. In his own words, the history of each picture was like a date: he wrote down the names of the species that interested him, asked the specialists where these flowers could be found, made an appointment in advance about the shooting, and only then came and held a photo session.
Andrew Zuckerman considers photography to be the easiest part of the job. It was much more difficult to find plants with their own interesting history. And without her, external beauty is for Andrew does not matter. In this sense, it is interesting to compare his work with the photographs of the fashion photographer Paul Lange.
Placing flowers on a white background, Andrew Zuckerman wants to focus the viewer's attention on the plants themselves, on their modest and natural beauty. Andrew deliberately avoided symbolic overtones or parallelism with human states. As the famous filmmaker correctly noted David Lynch, project "Flower" is a triumph of the artistry of nature.
As he says Andrew Zuckerman, all that interests him is to capture our three-dimensional world in a two-dimensional image. In addition to photography, he is also involved in film and multimedia projects. His work was also appreciated by the company Applewhich last year offered Andrew create a series of screensavers for your equipment. So we should expect a rise in interest in the author's work.
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