The Beginner's Still Life Photography Guide

• Demonstrates how independent thinking can be combined with aesthetics
• An excellent visual resource for photography enthusiasts

Still Life Photography reveals the aesthetic characteristics of what everyday people see, use and eat. It is a stark and relentless display of normality, embracing the unappreciated or negative. All aspects of ordinary life are re-discovered and re-illustrated via the camera lens. This book illuminates the unexpected potential of the objects surrounding us, and at the core of each photo lays an invitation to take a fresh look at life.

Part of a medium format series of thematic books that survey the Getty Museum's collection of photographs, Still Life in Photography features 80 plates along with a brief, but insightful essay intended to introduce the reader to the major aesthetic and technical developments that have shaped the genre.