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I’ve always liked the vanitas still life images from the Renaissance.

I was excited to play with long exposure and incandescent lighting for this assignment. I wanted to create a portrait with the feel of something Vermeer might paint.

I wanted to create an image in reference to a renaissance table top still life. This is my contemporary take.

i photographed this as an ode to the beautiful and idealized nudes from the renaissance period. thanks to rob for helping with retouching.

i loved this assignment. a couple years ago i re-created a few paintings from the renaissance and other periods, and had painters work on the printed pieces. below are a couple from that series..i thought they fit well with the assignment.

painter: katie crawford

painter: matt groller

My favorite aspect of Renaissance art is the development of linear perspective. It all comes down to the Western worlds worship of a single God, therefore there must be only 1 point of perspective. So I photographed buildings in a flat way, trying to disassociate the images from only 1 point of perspective.

Over the years this image, Lamentation by Andrea Mantegna, has stuck with me for one reason or another. I guess I noticed a likeness while documenting the first Open Heart Surgery in the new wing.