Artist: Sharon Core
Date of Artist's Life: 1965-Present (54 years old)
Personal Background - Sharon Core is an American artist and photographer. She was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. She went to the University of Georgia for school. She also went to Yale University School of Art for Art School. She won the George Sakier Memorial Prize for Excellence in Photography and the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant awards.
Style - Sharon Core's carefully constructed images examine the relationship between illusion and reality within photography. Sharon Core's still life photos are set on a tan table with lighting coming from the left side and the background is darkened to have the objects in the still life pop from the picture. Most of her still life photos are of food. She also takes still life photos of plants, especially flowers in a vase. Sharon Core's photos are taken in a way where they look fake and painted.
Philosophy - Sharon Core's early series Drunk (1998-2000)employed the formal lighting and monochromatic backdrops of commercial portrait photography to capture subjects with unfocused eyes, tousled hair, and inebriated expressions. Sharon Core's most recent series, Understory (2014-2016), was inspired by the work of the 17th century Dutch painter Otto Marseus van Schriek. Sharon Core's photography uses art-historical conventions of landscape, portraiture and still life to examine questions of collective memory, authenticity and authorship, and the interplay between photographic truth and illusion. Sharon Core problematizes our understanding of photography as a simple truth-telling medium.
Influences - Sharon Core has influenced me to take more photos of food and plants and creating an illusion and realistic photo with it. She influenced me to take more still life photos of everyday objects and show the beauty and illusion of them.
Style - Sharon Core's carefully constructed images examine the relationship between illusion and reality within photography. Sharon Core's still life photos are set on a tan table with lighting coming from the left side and the background is darkened to have the objects in the still life pop from the picture. Most of her still life photos are of food. She also takes still life photos of plants, especially flowers in a vase. Sharon Core's photos are taken in a way where they look fake and painted.
Philosophy - Sharon Core's early series Drunk (1998-2000)employed the formal lighting and monochromatic backdrops of commercial portrait photography to capture subjects with unfocused eyes, tousled hair, and inebriated expressions. Sharon Core's most recent series, Understory (2014-2016), was inspired by the work of the 17th century Dutch painter Otto Marseus van Schriek. Sharon Core's photography uses art-historical conventions of landscape, portraiture and still life to examine questions of collective memory, authenticity and authorship, and the interplay between photographic truth and illusion. Sharon Core problematizes our understanding of photography as a simple truth-telling medium.
Influences - Sharon Core has influenced me to take more photos of food and plants and creating an illusion and realistic photo with it. She influenced me to take more still life photos of everyday objects and show the beauty and illusion of them.
Compare and Contrast - Sharon Core's photos look way more professional than mine. Her edits on her photos are also a lot different and better than mine. She has flowers in her watermelon photo I don't I couldn't find the flowers for when I was taking my pictures. Her hamburgers are also different. I have a regular bun, her hamburger has a special bun.Both pictures are still life photos.
Personal Artist Statement - My pictures a based on foods I love, watermelon and hamburgers. Both foods are summer foods which does make the photos bring a warm summer like feeling to them. I struggled with editing my photos to how I wanted them. It was hard to get a similar look and style of photo with Core's.
Personal Artist Statement - My pictures a based on foods I love, watermelon and hamburgers. Both foods are summer foods which does make the photos bring a warm summer like feeling to them. I struggled with editing my photos to how I wanted them. It was hard to get a similar look and style of photo with Core's.