Artists references

Walker Evans

Walker Evans

Walker Evans was an American photographer and photojournalist well known for documenting the effects of the Great Depression however he also published a collection of images of different tools – usually displaying only one tool per image he wanted the tools to be the focal point ensuring the viewers full attention was on the detail and sometimes simplicity of the tools.

Walker Evans, Beauties of the Common Tool | FOTOFORM
“Beauties of the Common Tool” – 1955 

Darren Harvey-Regan

Darren Harvey-Regan is known for his images of sculptures, by creating mostly monochrome pieces he allows the shadow and light to be the contrasting features and ‘The Erratics’ has been described as a ‘thoughtful photographic interpretation of a geological phenomenon’ due to its literal meaning of the name as an erratic is a rock that has been carried hundreds of thousands of kilometers on glacial ice therefore draws upon this idea that it is both literal and abstract.

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