Research: Fernand Fonssagrive

Fernand Fonssagrives was a french photographer known for his 'beauty photography' often photographing his wife.

I love how here the human body is almost invisible. It is not the subject of this photograph, but instead part of the background. and it blends very well. The body is naked and curled up into a ball. An angle perhaps unusual and not normally deemed attractive. But since this is not the subject this is perhaps unimportant.
The subject is the shadow formed from a metal fence. that is projected over the naked body. The shadow a very strong, deep , bold black I love the shapes and his use of the body as a canvas.

Again, a naked body used as a canvas for a shadow cast by a fence I love the level of contrast and how the shadows follow the shape of the body.

A close up of shadows cast on part of the female body from a mesh like fence. The jet black background makes the body seem extremely 3 dimensional.

I love the unusual ways Fonssagrives uses the human body as a canvas and the way he uses light and shadow as an art form and subject to create his work