What Makes Barbara Kasten's Photography Unique

There are many different photographers in different genre that hold their own styles. Barbara Kasten makes her unique style unique because of the way she plays around with the light and shadow and the mediums that are used in her projects, which make her style, stand out. What makes Barbara Kasten’s photography unique? While other photographers take photographs of people or landscapes, Barbara Kasten takes photographs of objects that are not usually used in photography. By taking photographs of a bunch of random objects as subjects makes her style one of its kind and her style like no other photographers. Barbara Kasten, an American photographer, studied to become a painter while going to college, but stumbled onto photography. She is known for using interior environments, such as assembled lights, objects, and mirrors to create illusory subject of her image. Her style of photography is different from a traditional photography. She was influenced by James Turrell and Robert Irwin of the Light and Space movement. Till today, Kasten is still shooting projects. There are many photographers that have similar styles, but Kasten has her own twist to her photograph. Kasten took ideas from the Space and Light movement
In this photograph, I see a piece of cloth hanging on a wall with mirrors on the ground reflecting the small lights that is coming in. The lights that are coming are bouncing of the mirrors to the back wall. Looking at this photography, I think that Kasten used the right mirrors and right angle to bounce the light onto the wall. I also think that Kasten used the right amount of light to come in to make the light on the wall not too bright. By looking at this photography, I feel that Kasten took some time to make this project perfect. By using the right mirrors and right lighting, she made this project beautifully. With the project being dark and grey, it adds gloomy emotion to the project.