Reading: Still Life and Abstract Photography

I, like most likely the rest of the class, was confused when we were assigned the reading assignments for still life, and abstract photography at the same time. When I think of still lives I think of boring set up that I have to draw to better understand the techniques being taught. I never thought that it was real anything you want it to be. As Ann Lauterbach explained it "the invisible persona of the photographer comes to endow the images with the quixotic but powerful language of the secret,  or the fetish." She showed me that a still life is really showing who the photographer is as a person it is cliche but it is a window into your soul. I never really analyzed a still life photograph I just thought they were random objects, but now I see myself   looking at them differently, they aren't as boring and mundane as i thought they were

With the abstract article, Lynne Guimond Findlay shows me that there are different ways to interoperate something as abstract art. The way I liked  was how it is just everything, from a portrait to a still life. When painting or drawing one interoperates things differently showing that there is some sort of abstraction, whether in the shape or color. With a photograph you could just take a close up of an object and it could be distorted creating it an abstract piece of art. After reading the assignments I definitely loo at abstract art and still lives to be one in the same.