Personal Background:
David Arky is a photographer that specializes in commercial and advertising photos who has worked with many large enterprises such as life magazine. He has also worked with dove dish soap, coca cola, Pepsi and Microsoft. He started his career as his own photography studio around 1980. He mainly works with still lifes but has done work with x-rays.
Style
He specializes in advertising photography and also works for magazines. He commonly uses minimalism and simplicity in his photos such as his photos for Pepsi and Dove where it is just the subject such as the can and a solid background of a specific color that represents the product/ company. His photos try to convey a message in a very simple way leaving much to be subjective.
Philosophy
The major idea in his work are to show his interest in certain products or companys such as pepsi or dove.His photos where mostly commercial with some social photos like the x-rays. Most of his photos where trying to express the simple beauty in things that we over look in our our daily lives.
Influence
He has influenced me by showing me how little I stop and look at the things I buy and the products I consume and just look at the details like the bubbles in a coke or the sleek design of a Comcast box and I really like the simplicity of his photos and the minimalistic feel to them.
Cola Bubbles
http://www.arky.com/ In his photo (left) you can tell that this was very planned due to the perfect lighting and the amount of bubbles that is not very realistic compared to mine where the cola is darker,less bubbly and not ass well lit Peaches n Cream
http://www.arky.com/ in his photo (left) it seems to be the most pristine peach and whipped cream ever so you can tell that this photo was used in an ad for some fruit company.
Xfinity box
http://www.arky.com/ In his photo (Left) you can see the precision editing and the flawless picture taking showing that this is an ad rather than my not so flattering photo and editing (right)
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