Jon shireman biography
- Jon Shireman has a selection of photos he has called 'Broken Flowers' in which he has carefully amputated a range of flowers in a very specific and delicate.
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- Throughout his career, Shireman has maintained a connection with flowers in decay; in other still lifes, he has cataloged the wilting of tulips and mums.
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MTO (tag for Mateo) is a street artist whose graffiti is realistic art. He has lived in France, but has no current address that he publicizes. MTO does have an Instagram account.
His artwork is almost always black and white with a pop of color somewhere. I have a thing for aerosol art, and MTO’s work, which may be scrubbed off in a week, is a sign of courage and dedication to art (at least for me).
DALeast is a different kind of street artist. He creates large metal sculptures attached to buildings.
“Abscission” © DALeast, 2014. Photo: Brandon Shigeta
Originally born in China, he left to study art and to make art all over the world.
“Adrenalin” © DALeast, 2012 in Cape Town, South Africa
While the metal is in fragments, the finished piece reads easily as a
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When it comes to flowers and art, there are no limits! Flowers are a source of a constant source of inspiration. Artists are so imaginative and creative! Flowers have been xrayed, deconstructed, electrocuted, and now smashed!
Is the sum greater than the parts or the parts greater than the sum? Photographer Jon Shireman may agree with the latter.
He is the talent behind these “smashing” images! In his 2010 series “Broken Flowers,” he used liquid nitrogen to freeze a variety of flowers before shattering them into pieces using a homemade spring-loaded device. The flowers were soaked in a bath of liquid nitrogen for about 30 minutes before they are photographed with a high speed camera.
Just like nature, the final images show how fragile and fleeting beauty can be.
Jon Shireman is a professional photographer living in New York City specializing in fine art still life, architecture, and location photography.
To see more of Jon Shireman’s work, see his Flickr page or his website.
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For those that don’t know me I should preface this by saying that I love photography. I have since forever. I remember my mom giving me a camera as a gift when I was 7 or 8 years old because she was impressed by the pictures I took for my brownie badge and I’ve been hooked ever since. My dad’s siblings are also photographers and I have been lucky to get some personal lessons from them at different times. My Aunt Johanna was the photographer at my wedding (blog post and pictures coming soon I swear), and I have a happy memory of being 13 and visiting her by myself for the weekend. She gave me a camera, loaded me up with film and let me go, including inside her darkroom. It was basically the best ever. I collect cameras, I read camera blogs, I take photos as much as I can. I’ve been having a personal revival with film ever since my good digital slr was stolen, so you don’t get to see as many of my photos here as I would otherwise post if I had digital but take my word for it, I’m a fan.
One of my favourite photoblogs is Ph
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