Professional Interior Photography, 3rd Edition

1 THE ARTISTIC INTERPRETATION OF INTERIORS

We seem to have a natural fascination with the way people choose to decorate and furnish their homes, as is borne out by the multitude of interior magazines that grace the shelves of every newsagent. This is in part nosiness – to catch a glimpse of a private sanctuary that usually remains behind closed doors – and in part an aesthetic appreciation of interior design, from which personal styles can be developed or copied. The extent to which this is successful depends on the confidence of the designer and stylist to create aesthetically appealing interiors, and the ability of the artist or photographer to express these three-dimensional atmospheric experiences as mere two-dimensional images. This chapter ...