WHO IS BARRY ROSENTHAL?

Barry Rosenthal a fine art photographer, is also an urban archaeologist and sculptor.

He studied photography at the Dayton Art Institute in Dayton, Ohio and at the Apeiron Workshops in Millerton, New York with notable photographers Emmet Gowin and George Tice.

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WHAT IS ROSENTHAL TRYING TO HIGHLIGHT IN HIS PHOTOGRAPHY?

The artist, Barry Rosenthal, uses sculpture and photography to express his distress about plastic pollution in the oceans. His project, “Found in Nature” graphically displays collections of found objects pulled from the shores.

HOW DID ROSENTHAL START THIS PROJECT?

While scouting for plants at the shore, Rosenthal came across ocean borne trash which rode in on the waves. He cleaned the beach of trash and liked what he had picked up. The objects were changed by the elements of sun, sand and sea. He was compelled to bring the issue of plastic pollution in our oceans to the forefront of climate issues. Titled, “Found in Nature” his seminal series of photographs highlights how plastic is with us forever.

IMAGE ANALYSIS:

This image by Rosenthal is stationary with the repeating pattern of the empty green containers. The lighting is hard and equal through the images which suggests it was taken by studio lighting. The black background emphasizes the colour green of the empty containers. The colour green has connation’s of greed, rebirth, and money, however recently it can also have connotations of recycling. However even though out plastic consumption is still rising and further destroying Earth people still throw rubbish on the streets disregarding the space around them. This image that Rosenthal has taken shows the affect and how much plastic is being wasted.