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Compare and Contrast: This photo I pick contains a lot details, and I try to position all my objects the same as the original one. The difference between our photo is Jan Groover use the original color of the photo, but I changed to black and white because I think it will look better at black and white since I took the picture with a little natural light. And her work shows a lot detail and she works well with the reflection the spoon and the knife have created. Also I used a different background, because I can't set up a similar background as what she did, so I chose to use white background. The similarities is that I use the mostly the same object to recreated the picture.
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Compare and Contrast: This picture I chose also contains a lot details. I try to set the same position as what she did, although I don't have the exact material as her's. One of the difference is that I make the image black and white since the color of the original photo was very bad because there is not not much natural light. Also her work is much detailed than mine. And I used a white background to show the objects more. One similarities is the position of the objects is pretty close to the original photos.
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Compare and Contrast: I try to use similar material as what the artist has used. One difference is that I use a white background instead of a black background and I took the picture at a different angle than what the artist does. Also compared to her work, mine was less detailed. And one similarities is that both of our image is black and white, and the position of the objects were very close to the original picture, also I try to take the picture at a eye level that's similar to the original photo. Overall, I think I did a pretty good job on recreating this picture.
Name of the artist: Jan Groover
Dates of artist's life: April 24, 1943 -January 1, 2012
Personal Background: Jan groover was born on April 24, 1943 in Plainfield, NJ, she studied at Pratt Institute in New York before receiving a fellowship to attend Ohio State University in Columbus. The artist’s work first came to prominence in the late 1970s with her still-life motifs. In 1987, she was the subject of a mid-career retrospective at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. She was an American photographer known for her formal inquisitions into still life, portraiture, and landscape, using both colors black-and-white. He kitchen still life photographs were first exhibited at Sonnabend Gallery. In 1979, she received a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. Her work has been exhibited and included in the collections of the most major museum worldwide and continues to influence a new generation of artists.
Dates of artist's life: April 24, 1943 -January 1, 2012
Personal Background: Jan groover was born on April 24, 1943 in Plainfield, NJ, she studied at Pratt Institute in New York before receiving a fellowship to attend Ohio State University in Columbus. The artist’s work first came to prominence in the late 1970s with her still-life motifs. In 1987, she was the subject of a mid-career retrospective at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. She was an American photographer known for her formal inquisitions into still life, portraiture, and landscape, using both colors black-and-white. He kitchen still life photographs were first exhibited at Sonnabend Gallery. In 1979, she received a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. Her work has been exhibited and included in the collections of the most major museum worldwide and continues to influence a new generation of artists.
Style: Most of Jan Groover's photograph and work were dark color, In her work, groover complicates the notion of representation, and emphasizes the capacity of the photography to make the works of imagination. And most of her works ere little details that we sees in everyday life. The drama in Groover's pictures arises from the tension between the form of the pictures and the things we know to exists in the world. In her still life of photograph, we can see her placement of the objects were strange and different than others, and the way she arrange the object and color.
Philosophy: The ideas behind Jan Groovers work is that she focused on everyday life objects. And her relentlessly formal still lifes of mundane objects brought a sense of Renaissance stateliness to postmodern photography. Her pictures resonated not only as subtle documents of feminism but also as unusually beautiful investigations of the fictions that are inseparable from facts in the conventions of photography, because she focused on the everyday implements of the kitchen, arranged in the sink: fork tines, spatulas, butter-knife blades, whorled and scalloped cake pans, which creates a sense of beautiful but also feminism.Later she begin to focused on the churches, graveyards, and landscapes, pressing even further in her exploration of photographic space and illusion. And she thought it’s like she is playing herself and it’s fun for her. The idea behind her work were more personally, not only for people to see it, but she did because she like it and it’s what she wants to show people about her passion.
Influences: Groover was influenced by the works of 14th- and 15th-century still-life masters as well as those of Paul Cezanne and Giorgio Morandi and by the stop action imagery of British photographer Eadweard Muybridge. Her pictures resonated not only as subtle documents of feminism but also as unusually beautiful investigations of the fictions that are inseparable from facts in the conventions of photography and inquiries being similarly undertaken by other artists of the time, like Tina Barney, Laurie Simmons, Cindy Sherman, and Richard Prince. Her carefully orchestrated large format photographs which came to include a wide variety of objects and, later, people - anticipated in some ways the now-prominent practice of more elaborately staged photography by artists like Jeff Wall, Thomas Demand, and Gregory Crewdson, who studied under Ms. Groover at the State University of New York, Purchase, where she taught for more than a decade. And her idea of new ways of photography also influenced the new generations of artists.
Source Cite: https://www.moma.org/collection/works/49439?artist_id=2358&locale=en&page=1&sov_referrer=artist
http://www.artnet.com/artists/jan-groover/
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/obituaries/2012/01/14/jan-groover-photographer-focused-everyday-objects/VDflzYmE5UYaWLcr9x6FIL/story.html
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jan-Groover
http://www.artnet.com/artists/jan-groover/
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/obituaries/2012/01/14/jan-groover-photographer-focused-everyday-objects/VDflzYmE5UYaWLcr9x6FIL/story.html
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jan-Groover
Personal Artist Statement: I have a lot the fun when setting up the image, when I was taking the picture I try to bring the object I want to show the most into the center using the rule of third, and I used a simple background so that the viewer will focus on the object and not distract because of the background. And I used light to created the depth which is the shadow to make it more solid. Also when I was taking the first two picture, I found it very hard to take it because when I get closer to the objects, the spoon and the knife reflected myself into the image, and I try to avoid this problem by using different angle and cropping it so it look better. Also is very hard to recreated the position of the objects for me because the artists shoot the pictures at a real kitchen scene, and I shoot it at a flat surface. Overall, this project is very fun, and also very challenging for me to recreate a professional photographer's work.
Her work influence on me try to look things around me, and pay more attention to the things surround me, for example, look stuff in details, you might see different side of it. And because her passion about taking photos she likes not what others wants you to do, I try and focused on the things I’m interesting about. Additionally, she make taking photo fun, from her I learned that it’s not only a assignment that I need to complete, but enjoy the process of taking the photos. Also from her works, it makes me become more creative of my works and put effort in it. Lastly, by recreating her work, I can get the feeling she has when she is taking the photos. And those are the main reasons I choose to recreate her work.
Her work influence on me try to look things around me, and pay more attention to the things surround me, for example, look stuff in details, you might see different side of it. And because her passion about taking photos she likes not what others wants you to do, I try and focused on the things I’m interesting about. Additionally, she make taking photo fun, from her I learned that it’s not only a assignment that I need to complete, but enjoy the process of taking the photos. Also from her works, it makes me become more creative of my works and put effort in it. Lastly, by recreating her work, I can get the feeling she has when she is taking the photos. And those are the main reasons I choose to recreate her work.