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The History of Photography, part one, 2007
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History of Photography refers to a time in the history of Photography,
when photographers emulated the traditional subject matter of painters
so as to place it side by side with art (and not science). They photographed
still life (fruit arrangements and flowers), landscapes and portraits.
Having your portrait painted at that time was a status symbol and when
photography came about, it enabled many more people to have an inexpensive
portrait made. So here I am poking fun at this, by looking at this phenomenon
form the point of view of flowers – “The flowers flocked
to the photographers to be the first to have their portraits taken”
– this piece is about the beginning subject matter of photography,
but also about flowers wanting attention, always having their likenesses
represented in art, competing in a way with sunsets, as the most photographed
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