Joseph Cantor

Abandoned

Inspired by: Robert Adams, Bulldozed Slash Laura McPhee, The Blue Lagoon

black and white photograph

13″ x 20″

2021

Viewing the pieces on loan from the FAM, there are two pieces in particular speak to me, “The Blue Lagoon” by Laura McPhee and “Bulldozed Slash” by Robert Adams. In each of these artworks I feel a sense of loss, lack of caring, and a lack of responsibility. I see nature attacked, disowned, and discarded for human progress. In the spirit of these great works, I present “Abandoned”, a black and white photograph of a partially shipwrecked, half-sunken lobster boat, just off the coast of Maine, in a protected harbor. Who knows why the ship sunk, but it was left in place, nobody bothering to remove it or even to complete the sinking, and allow it to become a marine habitat. Now it sits half sunken, for years to come.

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Joseph Cantor

The Tinsmith

Print on Canvas

18″ x 30″

2022

The Tinsmith is an exploration into the historical background of New England focusing on art and objects created by hand, with masterful skill and passion. This piece is part of my current artistic journey into creating “photo-realistic paintings.” This process begins with me creating a standard photograph and then digitally painting over the image to create brush effects, highlights, shadows and other effects.

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Joseph Cantor

Color as a Storyteller – Yellow Rowboat

photograph on canvas

8″ x 10″

2023

This is part of my Color as a Storyteller series, focusing (pun intended) on representing a scene by highlighting a single color. In this image, a lone yellow rowboat sits moored amid a group. I love the pop and vibrance of the yellow set against the dark waters and black and white of the other boats.

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Joseph Cantor

Heriloom Apples

Inspired by: Henry George Todd, Study of Strawberries

photograph

11″ x 14″

2022

Over the last few years I have been expanding and challenging my technical skills to broaden my approach to photography. One area of study has been in still life, with an interest and homage to the Dutch Masters still lifes. When I saw Henry George Todd’s Study of Strawberries, I was struck by the similar nature of composition and muted colors. What Todd and the Dutch Masters have done in oil, I am attempting to recreate in a photograph.