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John Blakemore

John Blakemore. Biography.

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John Blakemore

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  1. John Blakemore

  2. Biography • John Blakemore was born in Coventry England is 1936. He at one point became a professor of photography at the University of Derby. His photographs are generally viewed in a gallery setting. He is known for his black and white tulip and landscape photographs. He was inspired to work in the field after seeing an art gallery when he was young. He was also a member of the Royal Air Force for a time.

  3. Tulip Mutations No.3 (1991) This photograph focuses on various interesting tulips, uprooted from the ground and laid out on a table. This is trying to communicate that although the tulip is a nice flower not all things can be beautiful. The lighting is indoor, This also provides some interesting texture from the flower pedals.

  4. The Stilled Gaze (1994) Another photograph focusing of tulips, This time arrange in the setting of a flower collector. You can see tulips in various stages of life from freshly picked to being dried and preserved. This is talking about the life cycle of the tulip. Once again very interesting texture and there is a lot to look at in this photograph as well, while not being to busy. This photograph is one of his more famous.

  5. Tulipa (1992) • This time the photograph focuses less on a floral arrangement so much and showing the texture of a pile of tulips, The lighting is very important to this photograph in particular because of how the shadow brings depth in. I think this was taken just as an interesting photograph to show off texture in depth, and in black and white is has worked especially well.

  6. Untitled (1989) • This one of his landscape photographs, it pictures a fallen tree and some ferns and such. I really think the texture or the grass makes this a better photograph to look at over any other forestry. The intent may have been once again to show death from the fallen tree but I think it is simply a nice photograph.

  7. Untitled (1989) • A more traditional setting of a creek bed, you can see how the water is brighter because of reflection that must have shined off of it. Some of the trees and the river bank loosely follow the rule of thirds but I think this is more concentrated on the water body of course, but the foggy forest as a horizon looks very appealing as well.

  8. Sources • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Blakemore • www.images.warwick.ac.uk/services/art/artist/johnblakemore • www.the-clocktower.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/john_blakemore5_0.jpg • http://www.noelkingsley.com/blog/Tulipa,%20John%20Blakemore.jpg • http://www.onlandscape.co.uk/2011/03/master-photographer-john-blakemore/

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