the book : pure invention the table top still life
the photographer :- jan groover
he was trained and went to school to be a painter but turned to photography
he was influenced by the photographs by walker evans and alfred stieglitz and edward steichen
early on in his careeer as a photographer he was basically out in the real world, much more conceptual in approach as to what he does no, which is literlaly descriptive of subject matter. he is keen on the ordinariness of the object and showcasing it in its most raw form as opposed to glamorising it.
1979 - 1990 images are platinum palladium prints
I researched into Platinum prints as I wasn't entirely sure what they were. I found that they are photographic prints made by a monochrome printing process that provides the greatest tonal range of any printing method using chemical development.favored by collectors because of their tonal range, the surface quality and their permanence. A platinum print provides a broad scale of tones from black to white. The platinum tones range from warm black, to reddish brown, to expanded mid-tone grays that are unobtainable in silver prints
Although in more recent work of jan groovers colour is being used, they remain to have a very vintage aesthetic.
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