Trish Juliano - Style Assignment

Tim Carpenter

By looking at the book “Local Objects” composed by Tim Carpenter, I can tell his style is hugely based around vertical, black and white images. His book highlights the inactivity of the every day views one may see in the American Midwest. These images have nice quality with little to no grain in them. There is moderate contrast between the black and white values, but definitely exercises the grays in between to create an interesting image. It looks as if he also takes the photos from his own eye-level perspective, rather than lowering himself below his subject or moving above it. Also, it looks like he uses a small aperture since the foreground and background are both in focus. It definitely looked like he wanted to show these subject in a raw state with no photography tricks or techniques to glorify these every day sights. The simplicity of the landscapes whether they have some rhythm to them or not, are very characteristic of these photographs. The images have ranged from trees, fields, plants, houses, cracked sidewalks, street intersections, textured buildings, and fences, but none included humans as subjects. Also, it looks like he had a collection of these images building for a while since some scenes have snow on the ground, and some have trees in full bloom.