documentary Still Life
What is Still Life
Still life rather is an evolving system of representation and of meaning, directly related to the transformations of society and of artsistic dialogue. It address certain positions a society maintains in relation to its objects referring to realities, fantasies and desires. Objects desired appear opposed to real, their interpretation and ideological agreements and patterns removed from experience of the real world and obey codes in order to project their symbolic meaning.
Still life is a system of objects meaning its secret lies. The system is set of things connected to form a unity. Organization of choice of objects relating to a person or collective world view which is a fictional system corresponding to a structure of desire. The depictions of fine china and crystal, elegant cloths and laces, exotic food which identified with that period and life style.
Andre Kertesz
Andre Kertesz is a twentieth century photographer worked from Hungary to Paris then New York, he was engaged with realism and surreal nudes named 'distortions'. He loved the pattern and deep space, in 1930s he remained in Paris studying the people and their inhabitation of the streets, and the play of light and shadow that dramatically filled the picture. His contemporary modern still life positions were beautiful semi- abstract shapes around us at home, I especially like how he has used objects representing someone he is attached to or he is describing himself and placing objects that are memories keeping him occupied in his life, a moment of joy and new experiences from his travelling in Paris and it is clear that he likes knowing what is going around him in the world by displaying newspapers in the image and his way in having peace is smelling and viewing the bunch of flowers, smoking and gazing out a window and the rain drips gives him a calm mind, maybe flowers reminding him of a lover or a relative.
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