{"id":421112,"date":"2024-10-03T15:04:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T19:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/?p=421112"},"modified":"2024-10-08T15:09:43","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T19:09:43","slug":"richard-caldicott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/richard-caldicott\/","title":{"rendered":"Elton John Is a Fan of this Richard Caldicott Tupperware Photo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/photography\/abstract-photography\/richard-caldicott-untitled-168-abstract-photography\/id-a_14795282\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"760\" height=\"950\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ideelart-CaldicottRichard_Untitled168_NotFramed_1270x1016mm_ORI_IMP_master.jpg-copy-760x950.jpg\" alt=\"Untitled #168 (Abstract Photography), 2000, by Richard Caldicott\" class=\"wp-image-421379\" style=\"width:675px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ideelart-CaldicottRichard_Untitled168_NotFramed_1270x1016mm_ORI_IMP_master.jpg-copy-760x950.jpg 760w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ideelart-CaldicottRichard_Untitled168_NotFramed_1270x1016mm_ORI_IMP_master.jpg-copy-280x350.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ideelart-CaldicottRichard_Untitled168_NotFramed_1270x1016mm_ORI_IMP_master.jpg-copy-96x120.jpg 96w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ideelart-CaldicottRichard_Untitled168_NotFramed_1270x1016mm_ORI_IMP_master.jpg-copy-768x961.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ideelart-CaldicottRichard_Untitled168_NotFramed_1270x1016mm_ORI_IMP_master.jpg-copy-746x933.jpg 746w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ideelart-CaldicottRichard_Untitled168_NotFramed_1270x1016mm_ORI_IMP_master.jpg-copy.jpg 949w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/photography\/abstract-photography\/richard-caldicott-untitled-168-abstract-photography\/id-a_14795282\/\"><em>Untitled #168 (Abstract Photography)<\/em>, 2000, by Richard Caldicott<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>In the 1990s, British artist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/creators\/richard-caldicott\/art\/\">Richard Caldicott<\/a> began photographing an unlikely subject: Tupperware containers. But rather than communicate the symbolic banality of these domestic vessels, as some artists interested in found objects might have done, Caldicott transformed them into ethereal, glowing geometric abstractions.<br><br>The large-scale limited edition photograph <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/photography\/abstract-photography\/richard-caldicott-untitled-168-abstract-photography\/id-a_14795282\/\"><em>Untitled #168 (Abstract Photography)<\/em><\/a>, 2000, attests to Caldicott\u2019s creative eye and technical mastery, with its vivid color, luminescence and elegant sense of proportion and volume. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s no wonder that his work is sought after by serious <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/photography\/\">photography<\/a> buffs. An edition of this photo is one of 25 by Caldicott that belong to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/buy\/elton-john\/\">Sir Elton John<\/a> and his husband, David Furnish that hang alongside works by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/creators\/keith-haring\/\">Keith Haring<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/creators\/damien-hirst\/\">Damien Hirst<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/creators\/philip-taaffe\/\">Philip Taaffe<\/a>, among many others. Selections from their photography holdings, including three other works by Caldicott, are currently on view in the exhibition \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vam.ac.uk\/exhibitions\/fragile-beauty-photographs-from-the-sir-elton-john-and-david-furnish-collection?srsltid=AfmBOooETqo5jpj-9r712qVh4CiovTLECaA5FiLhiTy24u9u-2pQw8MH\">Fragile Beauty: Photographs from the Sir Elton John and David Furnish Collection<\/a>,\u201d at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vam.ac.uk\/\">V&amp;A<\/a> in London. London\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/dealers\/ideel-art\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">IdeelArt<\/a> is currently offering limited editions of the C-print.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/creators\/richard-caldicott\/art\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"950\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Caldicott-bio-photo--950x533.jpg\" alt=\"Artist Richard Caldicott with his works\" class=\"wp-image-421390\" style=\"width:950px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Caldicott-bio-photo--950x533.jpg 950w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Caldicott-bio-photo--623x350.jpg 623w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Caldicott-bio-photo--120x67.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Caldicott-bio-photo--768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Caldicott-bio-photo-.jpg 1170w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/creators\/richard-caldicott\/art\/\">Richard Caldicott<\/a> with works from his photogram and paper-negative series at a group show in Paris in 2017. Photo courtesy of Francis Berthomier<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>The couple\u2019s collection has also included the work of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/collections\/fashion-photography\/\">fashion photographers<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/creators\/irving-penn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Herb Ritts<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/creators\/irving-penn\">Irving Penn<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/creators\/horst-p-horst\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Horst P. Horst<\/a>; stellar examples of photojournalism; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/creators\/robert-mapplethorpe\/\">Robert Mapplethorpe<\/a>\u2019s striking self-portraits; and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/creators\/nan-goldin\/\">Nan Goldin<\/a>\u2019s raw images of the downtown New York scene. Caldicott, with his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/creators\/richard-caldicott\/art\/photography\/abstract-photography\/\">abstractions<\/a>, might feel like a bit of an anomaly, but what John values, in particular, is the magic of Caldicott\u2019s analog process. &#8220;Richard has the unique ability to transform the medium of photography, creating something new but still using the most traditional technique,&#8221; he wrote in a forward to a Caldicott exhibition catalogue in 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is no digital trickery involved here. Caldicott, who lives and works in London, achieved his luminous, colorful Tupperware compositions by photographing the containers, developing the film and then layering the transparencies on colored grounds, so that when light passed through them during the printing process there was a \u201cdouble intensity of color,\u201d explains Christelle Thomas, of IdeelArt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The interdisciplinary Caldicott came to photography through painting and drawing. <em>Untitled #168<\/em> and similar works, with their precise arrangements of squares, call to mind the spare constructions, clean lines and precision of 1960s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/style\/minimalist\/\">minimalism<\/a>. The translucent, vibrant hues of his floating shapes hint at the saturated expanses of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/style\/color-field\/\">Color Field<\/a> painters, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/introspective-magazine\/donald-judd\/\">spare architectural forms<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/creators\/donald-judd\/\">Donald Judd<\/a>, or even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/creators\/josef-albers\/\">Josef Albers<\/a>\u2019s experiments in color theory in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/collecting-op-art\/\">his \u201cHomage to the Square\u201d series<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/creators\/richard-caldicott\/art\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"713\" height=\"950\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Caldicott-V-and-A-713x950.jpg\" alt=\"Installation shot of Richard Caldicott's photographs at the V&amp;A\" class=\"wp-image-421320\" style=\"width:675px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Caldicott-V-and-A-713x950.jpg 713w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Caldicott-V-and-A-263x350.jpg 263w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Caldicott-V-and-A-90x120.jpg 90w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Caldicott-V-and-A-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Caldicott-V-and-A-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Caldicott-V-and-A-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Caldicott-V-and-A-700x933.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 713px) 100vw, 713px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A trio of Caldicott&#8217;s C-prints are currently on view in the exhibition &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vam.ac.uk\/exhibitions\/fragile-beauty-photographs-from-the-sir-elton-john-and-david-furnish-collection?srsltid=AfmBOooETqo5jpj-9r712qVh4CiovTLECaA5FiLhiTy24u9u-2pQw8MH\">Fragile Beauty: Photographs from the Sir Elton John and David Furnish Collection<\/a>,&#8221; at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vam.ac.uk\">V&amp;A<\/a> in London. They are, from left, <em>Untitled #59<\/em>, 1998; <em>Untitled #169<\/em>, 2000; and <em>Untitled #63<\/em>, 1998. Photo courtesy of the artist<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>But the question remains: How does an artist first find inspiration in Tupperware?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When it comes down to it, those storage containers are not so far off from the simple bottles, pitchers and other vessels that have inspired <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/paintings\/still-life-paintings\/\">still-life painters<\/a>. \u201cHe\u2019d been working on a series of still-life photos for some time,\u201d says Thomas, \u201chumble objects, things that he thought were overlooked in the scheme of the genre, like brown paper bags, a white Tupperware lunch box.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For some, the objects may call to mind the legendary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.architectural-review.com\/essays\/plastic-fantastic-tupperware-parties\">mid-century Tupperware parties<\/a>, where enterprising hostesses sold the brand\u2019s latest products to other housewives, who shared homemaking tips. (Although the parties evolved over the years, they are largely a thing of the past, and Tupperware Brands Corp. <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/business\/2024\/09\/tupperware-bankruptcy-kitchen-storage-downfall.html\">recently filed for bankruptcy<\/a>.) But that is not where Caldicott\u2019s mind was. For him, says Thomas, \u201cthey had color, translucency and geometric forms that were in dialogue with photography, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/paintings\/\">painting<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/sculptures\/\">sculpture<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nonetheless, images like <em>Untitled #168<\/em> feel vaguely retro, summoning the promise of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/buy\/atomic-age\/\">Atomic Age<\/a> with their almost radioactive glow.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<div class=\"interstitial-banner interstitial-banner-collection interstitial-container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"interstitial-content\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"interstitial-background-image\">\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/CaldicottRichard_Untitled59_NotFramed_1270x1016mm_ORI_IMP_master-1000x300.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-interstitial size-interstitial\" alt=\"Richard Caldicott photo of Tupperware.\" \/>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"container interstitial-text\">\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"interstitial-link-around-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/photography\/abstract-photography\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"interstitial-heading\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tDiscover More Abstract Photography on 1stDibs \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"interstitial-subheading\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"gold-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/photography\/abstract-photography\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<span>Shop All<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 1990s, British artist Richard Caldicott began photographing an unlikely subject: Tupperware containers. 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