John Blakemore
Pampas Grass no.1, 1988
Gelatin silver print
23.4 x 27.7 cms
9 1/4 x 10 7/8 ins
9 1/4 x 10 7/8 ins
14535
Provenance
John BlakemoreLiterature
John Blakemore, John Blakemore’s Black & White Photography Workshop, 2005, p. 138 (illustrated)
John Blakemore, Photographs 1955-2010, Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2011 (illustrated full page p.103)
Image size: 16.8 x 22.9 cms Paper size: 23.4 x 27.7 cms Inscribed on the reverse: (top left) 10/1 John Blakemore writes that “To construct a still life is to...
Image size: 16.8 x 22.9 cms
Paper size: 23.4 x 27.7 cms
Inscribed on the reverse: (top left) 10/1
John Blakemore writes that “To construct a still life is to play, both to create and to solve a jigsaw puzzle with no guiding picture. Even apparently simple and un-regarded material can stimulate exploration.
Paper size: 23.4 x 27.7 cms
Inscribed on the reverse: (top left) 10/1
John Blakemore writes that “To construct a still life is to play, both to create and to solve a jigsaw puzzle with no guiding picture. Even apparently simple and un-regarded material can stimulate exploration.
The pampas grass series combined a fascination with the intricate shapes and structures of the grasses with decisions about picture making. The frame within a frame, the use of tape, the movement from simplicity to complexity.
" (John Blakemore, Photographs 1955-2010, Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2011 (p102))