The first artwork is made by Edward Weston Pepper it is called Pepper.Weston was born in Chicago and moved to California when he was 21. He knew he wanted to be a photographer from an early age, and initially his work was typical of the soft focus pictorial ism which was a effect that made the image look slightly blurred it was used mainly in the 19th and 20th century. Hhowever he soon abandoned that style and went on to be one of the foremost champions of highly detailed photographic images. Unfortunately in 1947 he was diagnosed with the Parkinson's disease and died shortly in 1958 during that time he stopped photography and focused on the printing on his early prints which measured over 1,000.
The second Artwork is produced by Andre Kertez however he was a Hungarian born photographer His first encounters with magazine photography inspired him to learn photography. He was well known for his photographic composition and photo essay- which is a series of images that tell a story. Andre travelled a lot which made his career split into 4 periods called the Hungarian period, the French period, the American period and, toward the end of his life, the International period.
Edward Weston's theme seems to be quite natural and organic objects. this object pictured is actually a pepper but it is difficult to see because of the way it is positioned, first looking at the image i thought it was a swan because of the smoothness and neck alike stem, similarly it resembles a human with the position being the back. I think side lighting has been used in this piece as only sections of the right side have speckles of light reflected on them and below this whole object there is a small shadow caused by this direction of lighting.
This differs from Andres work as the theme is completely different as I've mentioned Edward focuses on the natural and organic objects Andres has pictured a fork which is classed as a everyday object and this image is a lot more contrasty compared to Edwards,This photograph has a lot more rough texture compared to Edwards smoothness you can really see the detail in the fork which connotates about the rough texture.
Both artworks have a close up shot of the objects within there frames this is a good effect because it lets us analyse the composition of the objects as well as the texture.
In Edwards piece the pepper is placed in the centre of the frame and because if its size it takes up the whole of the frame in comparison to Andre piece the fork is placed on top of the bowl in the frame this however has a good effect on the overall shadow.
In Edwards piece because side lighting was used the piece remains one tone, Andres piece however is a lot more contrasty with different shades of grey,white and blacks this makes it more interesting to look at and to analyse.
Because of the irregular shape of the pepper in Edwards photography i would say that maybe he found this odd looking paper in the bag and his imagination started flowing and he decided to photograph it using simple lighting and a bland background, Andre's photograph however i believe was more planned because of his very neat shadowing and how every object is perfect with no faults on it for example the bowl or plate has no cracks or chips.
Since Andre's photograph is by far more contrasty i would say in the darkroom he set his filters to a high number to really get the detail shown and on the other hand i would say Edward turned of his filters maybe to link into his 'natural' theme.
Both photographs capture a slightly calm and relaxed sort of mood because of the simple use of lighting and objects also because of the colour being black and white which normally connotates the feeling of gloomy or a dull feeling it doesn't strike me as something that's going to lighten my mood. I think both photographers artwork are in a way complete opposites despite the similarity in the moods. Edward's photography i think was trying to show the naturalism of the objects he chose he did this throughout the processing of the photograph as i believe he didn't use any filters to boost contrast in his piece.
Andre however seemed to embrace the technology in his photography and really use all of it to his advantage by experimenting with light in a position which creates a shadow and producing a really contrasting photography in result.
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