Imogen Cunningham was an American photographer who liked to photograph plants as well as nudes and industrial landscapes. The photograph that I chose for her is a 1949 picture of aloe vera. I was sadly not able to find aloe vera to photograph so I took a picture of witch-hazel which can have very similar healing effects to aloe vera. There are many facial products today that use aloe vera and witch hazel as some of the active ingredients so I wanted to go for a healing theme with my project. My goal in order to recreate the photo as much as possible was to find a plant that has some of the same qualities as aloe vera. I also wanted to find a plant that had some of the same sort of structure that an aloe vera plant has. I also wanted the photo to be black and white in order to make it look as closely to the original as possible. I do feel that this image is the best image I took that relates closely to Imogen Cunningham’s photo of aloe vera
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