Looking at other artists and photographers I was pointed towards Robert Mapplethorpe's work with flowers in still life. I also pulled upon the influence of Georgia O'Keefe and saw direct parallels with some of the images that I had taken of parrot tulips and her paintings.
Pulling away from macro photography, I also drew upon Mapplethorpe's work to produce some informal still lives of flowers that I had at home. The results are below.
While the macro shots had a flamboyant abstract quality, the still life is more commonplace, although the way that tulips behave lends themselves to photography and composition; there's something in the way they bend that adds interest.
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| Georgia O'Keefe |
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| Parrot Tulip 1 |
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| Parrot Tulip 2 |
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| Parrot Tulip 3 |
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| Robert Mapplethorpe's Tulips |
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| My shot of an overhanging tulip |
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| A closer look at the overhanging tulip |
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| Black and white of the same tulip |
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| Robert Mapplethorpe's tulip in a vase |
