Title: Salmon Bondage Aesthetics Of A Meal By Photo Artist Colin Cooke
Shipping: $30.00
Artist: N/A
Period: Contemporary
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Condition: Museum Quality
Item Date: July 18, 2013
Item ID: 5924
This sumptuous photo is called Salmon Bondage, Chemistry Aesthetics Of A Good Meal. This image comes from a short series I have done called Burned, Bound and Bloodied. Salmon Bondage. The first of three objects to tell a story. String binding up beautiful fresh meat on a cold chain. Colin Cooke has been an artist and commercial photographer for 25 years, focusing on food and food-related art. Colin Cooke's decadent art photography, The majority of his photography is themed around food - or rather how food plays a role in our lives. Colin Cooke's journey began in high school as a yearbook photographer. Colin Cooke: Summer school for my sophomore high school year I enrolled in two classes which changed my life: Photography and typing: Photography gave me a voice to show off my art. I was born in canada. father worked in construction and the family trailered from canada to georgia. left for calif where i was raised on the coast (in a house!) brooks institute of photography. santa barbara and then to NYC. have worked as a professional photographer since coming here. specializing in the art of food photography. yumm. 12 final images will be signed. no others will be printed.
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine-art_photography
Still life fine art photography is the depiction of inanimate subject matter, most typically a small grouping of objects. Still life photography, more so than other types of photography, such as landscape or portraiture, gives the photographer more leeway in the arrangement of design elements within a composition.
Still life photography is a demanding art, one in which the photographers are expected to be able to form their work with a refined sense of lighting, coupled with compositional skills. The still life photographer makes pictures rather than takes them. Knowing where to look for propping and surfaces also is a required skill.
Fine art photography is photography created in accordance with the vision of the artist as photographer. Fine art photography stands in contrast to representational photography, such as photojournalism, which provides a documentary visual account of specific subjects and events, literally re-presenting objective reality rather than the subjective intent of the photographer; and commercial photography, the primary focus of which is to advertise products or services.
The reactions of artists and writers have contributed significantly to perceptions of photography as fine art. Prominent painters, such as Francis Bacon and Pablo Picasso, have asserted their interest in the medium:
