http://alexhawley.wordpress.com/2008/06/29/westons-shells/ large format analog photography Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:48:46 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://alexhawley.wordpress.com/2008/06/29/westons-shells/#comment-48 dancoburn Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:16:00 +0000 http://alexhawley.wordpress.com/?p=27#comment-48 Hey Alex, Great post and I love your photo. I was glad to see such a good turn out for our outing. Hey Alex,
Great post and I love your photo. I was glad to see such a good turn out for our outing.

]]> http://alexhawley.wordpress.com/2008/06/29/westons-shells/#comment-46 Matt Needham Sun, 29 Jun 2008 12:59:06 +0000 http://alexhawley.wordpress.com/?p=27#comment-46 Check out the book "Plant Kingdoms, The Photographs of Charles Jones" if you can find it (often in bargain bins since no one knows who Charles Jones is). Charles Jones was an English gardener and photographer who lived from 1866 to 1959. He was creating wonderful still life photographs (in the style of straight photography) of the vegetables, fruits, and plants he grew . Charles Jones was "discovered" in the 1980s when an art dealer bought a trunk full of his glass plates and gold toned, silver gelatin prints. The work is amazing, and the story (what little we know) of Charles Jones fascinating. It has always reminded me of Weston's still lifes, particularly Pepper #30, but Charles Jones was doing this work over 20 years before Weston began making the transition from pictorialism to straight photography. Check out the book “Plant Kingdoms, The Photographs of Charles Jones” if you can find it (often in bargain bins since no one knows who Charles Jones is). Charles Jones was an English gardener and photographer who lived from 1866 to 1959. He was creating wonderful still life photographs (in the style of straight photography) of the vegetables, fruits, and plants he grew . Charles Jones was “discovered” in the 1980s when an art dealer bought a trunk full of his glass plates and gold toned, silver gelatin prints. The work is amazing, and the story (what little we know) of Charles Jones fascinating. It has always reminded me of Weston’s still lifes, particularly Pepper #30, but Charles Jones was doing this work over 20 years before Weston began making the transition from pictorialism to straight photography.

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