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Vanderpant made Untitled (Cymbals) at a time when he was questioning his earlier affiliation to the sentimental imagery of the camera club aesthetic. Aspiring to a new style of photography that favoured the expression of pure form over painterly effect, he explored the internal structure of organic forms and the external appearance of both natural and man-made forms. In this striking image, it is evident that the subject of cymbals afforded him the opportunity to capture both simple abstract forms and the smooth reflective industrial finish of the instrument, both elements that appealed to his sense of modernity. | |