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  • She experimented with old techniques that expanded the range of textures and palettes open to her -- sun prints and platinum toning -- and mastered large-format plate cameras in order to make intriguingly atmospheric still-lifes Teapot, Sussex, 1996; the movingly portentous self-portrait in Francis Bacon's studio was made on a 10 x 8 inch negative.

    John W. Whitehead: Linda McCartney: Life in Photographs John W. Whitehead 2011

  • Right now I am making a series of still-lifes and large scale jungle scenes.

    Liz Markus: Pretty On The Inside At Paul Kasmin Gallery Liz Markus 2011

  • She experimented with old techniques that expanded the range of textures and palettes open to her -- sun prints and platinum toning -- and mastered large-format plate cameras in order to make intriguingly atmospheric still-lifes Teapot, Sussex, 1996; the movingly portentous self-portrait in Francis Bacon's studio was made on a 10 x 8 inch negative.

    John W. Whitehead: Linda McCartney: Life in Photographs John W. Whitehead 2011

  • She experimented with old techniques that expanded the range of textures and palettes open to her -- sun prints and platinum toning -- and mastered large-format plate cameras in order to make intriguingly atmospheric still-lifes Teapot, Sussex, 1996; the movingly portentous self-portrait in Francis Bacon's studio was made on a 10 x 8 inch negative.

    John W. Whitehead: Linda McCartney: Life in Photographs John W. Whitehead 2011

  • She experimented with old techniques that expanded the range of textures and palettes open to her -- sun prints and platinum toning -- and mastered large-format plate cameras in order to make intriguingly atmospheric still-lifes Teapot, Sussex, 1996; the movingly portentous self-portrait in Francis Bacon's studio was made on a 10 x 8 inch negative.

    John W. Whitehead: Linda McCartney: Life in Photographs John W. Whitehead 2011

  • Going beyond Madonnas, landscapes and still-lifes showed an artist's business savvy at the time, Ms. Steinberg says, since painters who illustrated their knowledge of human anatomy, nature and ancient mythology could gain access to richer and more educated buyers who weren't daunted by the complex subject matter.

    Rubens's Classical Spectacle, Rated R Ellen Gamerman 2012

  • Edward Weston was far ahead of his time; his series of self-portraits, nudes, landscapes and close-up still-lifes defined modernist photography.

    Girls Go Postal! | 2009 July 2009

  • His series of self-portraits, nudes, landscapes and close-up still-lifes defined modernist photography in their formal elegance, simplicity and abstraction.

    Girls Go Postal! | “Floating Nude”, 1939 2009

  • A fractured roll of still-lifes behind my fractured retinas.

    Monkeytown excerpt 5 Chris Vola 2011

  • She experimented with old techniques that expanded the range of textures and palettes open to her -- sun prints and platinum toning -- and mastered large-format plate cameras in order to make intriguingly atmospheric still-lifes Teapot, Sussex, 1996; the movingly portentous self-portrait in Francis Bacon's studio was made on a 10 x 8 inch negative.

    John W. Whitehead: Linda McCartney: Life in Photographs John W. Whitehead 2011

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