Carl Chiarenza

I spent some time this afternoon looking for inspiration for my topic in the work of photographer who have experimented with this idea. Janie recommended that i look at the site www.luminous-lint.com to see the work of other artists who have worked with the concept of unrecognizable subject matter. While clicking through multiple artists i came across the work of Carl Chiarenza. While his more abstract work was photographs of his own collage work there were certain aspects of it that, especially after our first WIP critique, i felt pertained to the next step i would like to take with my own work. After discussing my work with the group it was obvious that i needed to do more experimentation. Experimentation with depth of field, light, distortion, post shoot manipulation, and much much more. Below are some of Chiarenza's images that i believe show this type of experimentation.


Chelsea Junkcar
1961-1964 (ca)

This image has a beautiful and intriguing depth of field. It pulls your eye into the image and directs it throughout the entire image all the while being completely ambiguous to what exactly you are looking at.


West End, Boston (bat window),
1958

This image, while a little more obvious as to what the subject matter is, show the importance and impact of negative space and light. Although i was able to determine what the form in the image was the angle and way it was shot at such a short distance from the actual object definitely helped to distort it.


This image was untitled and had not artist information. It was simply stated as a homage to Chiarenza.

This image i think definitely expressed the importance and usefulness of light in photographs. In this image i believe it creates a sense of depth in a relatively flat space and i think that will be very important for me to experiment with.