chrysallis
VANITAS 2014 - DEDPXL07 ASSIGNMENT
This picture is a variation on the “Vanitas” theme, a genre of still-life painting flourished in the 16th and 17th centuries.
“Vanitas” painting evoked the transience and vanity of earthly achievements and the inevitability of death through objects symbolizing wealth, pleasures, arts or science (gold, jewelry, playing cards, books, goblets..), and death or transience (skulls, clocks, flowers, burnt out candles..).
Today’s Vanitas has to be different: the world has changed, we don't even enjoy those earthly pleasures as we're too busy photographing them to share on social media.
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Technical info:
5d Mark III - EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM
Light painted with a torch
VANITAS 2014 - DEDPXL07 ASSIGNMENT
This picture is a variation on the “Vanitas” theme, a genre of still-life painting flourished in the 16th and 17th centuries.
“Vanitas” painting evoked the transience and vanity of earthly achievements and the inevitability of death through objects symbolizing wealth, pleasures, arts or science (gold, jewelry, playing cards, books, goblets..), and death or transience (skulls, clocks, flowers, burnt out candles..).
Today’s Vanitas has to be different: the world has changed, we don't even enjoy those earthly pleasures as we're too busy photographing them to share on social media.
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Technical info:
5d Mark III - EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM
Light painted with a torch