Video: Live still-life photographs of Daniele Longoni
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Jellyfish, frogs, praying mantises and furry bees, worms and ants … Ugh, what disgusting? If you think so, the only thing that can convince you is still-life photography Italian photographer Daniele Longonifamous for his art of macro photography of small animals. The art of revealing the beauty of what we are used to not paying attention to or turning away with disgust.
Daniele Longoni (1957) lives in the Italian city of Cagliari. By his main profession, he is a sailor, but his passion for photography, as is the case with many, began in college and, perhaps, grew into the main business of life: he has more cameras than rock musicians - guitars. And Longoni clearly knows what to do with them, and they enjoy him with particular success. live still life photos.
Word " alive"Next to" still life"(Dead nature) looks like an oxymoron - a combination of incongruous concepts. Meanwhile, the idea of still lifes with worms, bees, slugs and other not very appetizing inhabitants of very appetizing fruits is not new. Such paintings (the so-called genre "vanitas", from "vanity") appeared in the art of the Baroque. In later times, such paintings were an outright challenge to public tastes, an expression of the aesthetics of decadence and destruction.
We, brought up with respect for wildlife, the program "In the Animal World" and the BBC TV series, no longer look at ants and praying mantises as vile slush on the body of the universe - on the contrary, we learn to appreciate them for being on their fragile … elytra rests our common home - the Earth.
On still life photographs Daniele Longoni's purest white surfaces, thin glasses and perfect geometric shapes are combined with bizarre, asymmetrical, but, nevertheless, colorful and beautiful small animals: such a contrast is sometimes simply mesmerizing. Especially when you consider the excellent macro skills with which these photos were taken. So, are you ready to befriend the praying mantis already?
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