ARTIST: Paul Caponigro
TITLE OF WORK: Peach, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1989
SOURCE: Book 'The Nature Of Photographs' Stephen Shore
WHY DOES THE IMAGE INTEREST ME:
Whilst flicking through the course textbook I was drawn to this image because it took me a while to decipher what kind of object was being photographed. An object which life is escaping from. Shrunken and dehydrated. I find the composition alluring. I'm not sure If I think it is beautiful.
I find myself asking how was this image captured? In searching for this answer I found that it is an image of a peach. The skin of the peach is like a rough landscape and at the same time this piece of fruit looks like an eye. I feel like I am staring into a miniature shrunken world and I realise that I like this image because although it is a very simple image of a piece of fruit it comes to me in the first instance as being quite abstract.
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