Fruit and Flowers
Fruit and Flowers is a black and white photograph by English photographer Roger Fenton, taken in 1860. It was part of the still lives series that Fenton did at the Summer of that year, and would be some of his final photographic work, shortly before be leave this activity, in 1862. History and description Fenton faced bad weather in the Spring and Summer of 1860, and this might have inspired him to create a new kind of photography. He seems to have been inspired particularly by the still life, a typical subject in painting, to create a similar work in photography, even if it had to be monochrome. Fenton had previously worked in photographing the British Museum collection, and used his perfected skills to capture several carefully arranged still-lives, comprising groups of flowers, fruits, statuettes and other objects. His photographic still lives are believed to have been the first in English art. This Fruit and Flowers is one of the finest that he arranged and photographed back then. Despite its pictorical inspiration, most likely from the Dutch painting, Fenton achieved something new in the history of art, justifying his belief that photography should also be considered an art form. This