Jan Groover - Postmodern Photographer

“Formalism is everything,” was the motto of post-modernist still life photographer Jan Groover, who died on January 1st, 2012, in  Montpon-Meneterol, France, where she had lived for more than 20 years. Although she started out as a painter, who admired European still lifes of artists like Giorgio Morandi and Cezanne, her own photographic still lifes were spare, and her subjects utilitarian, focusing on everyday kitchen utensils such as forks, knives, and cake pans.

 http://www.photographmag.com/snapshots/2012/01/12/jan-groover-1943-2012

Groover was noted for her use of emerging color technologies. In 1979, Groover began to use platinum/palladium prints for portraits and still lifes, transforming everyday items into beautiful, formal still lifes. In 1987, critic Andy Grundberg noted in the New York Times, "In 1978 an exhibition of her dramatic still-life photographs of objects in her kitchen sink caused a sensation. When one appeared on the cover of Artforum magazine, it was a signal that photography had arrived in the art world - complete with a marketplace to support it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Groover

'I had some wild concept that you could change space — which you can.'                                                                  Jan Groover

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I took some pictures of my kitchen and I used Photoshop to modify them...