Janet Croog

I am so sorry this is posted after 5. I have been changing homes so I was unable to get everything together in time, but I had written this yesterday actually (even though you wouldn't know that I suppose...).

Edward Weston

The photographer I am emulating is Edward Weston because his photos are very figurative. I have always been interested in the human body, especially when dealing with natural curvature which is why his style pertains to my own. He even said, "I am stimulated to work with the nude body, because of the infinite combinations of lines which are present with every move."
Another way Weston photographs natural curvature is through vegetable forms, as you can see in his “Natural Studies” portfolio. I can really appreciate his taste for this subject matter. He inspired me to find some of my own vegetables and see their form in relation to the human body, especially with peppers. One of his most famous photos is his “Pepper, 1930” photo.
His lighting in his photos varies from well balanced to a bit contrasted in order to pronounce the shadows and highlights in the curves of his subjects. I really like the photos that have a dark background which makes his subjects a more dynamic focus. His subjects can be very simple in the fact that it is just the human body or just a vegetable, but the form of the subject itself is not all that simple because of all the lines and curves it has.
For my first roll of film I tried to emulate Weston’s photos using a human form and a few vegetables, including a pepper. I used a male body as opposed to Weston’s female bodies, but any body I can get a hold of will have the same affect in its infinite lines and curves. The pepper I used has curves similar to the human form, especially of the back of a person. The idea can be abstract also, so any eye can find anything out of the curves of the vegetables I used (which is the beauty of art in general).
I plan to take more photos, hopefully of different people, but in the same manner Weston uses. I also plan to find more vegetables. I will not do revealing nude photos, but I will continue to shoot creative body curvatures. Because of Weston, I have now become intrigued by the pepper vegetable specifically, but I know many vegetables have a unique curvature that I can relate to the human form. I plan to search endlessly for these vegetables now.