Paolo Ventura

Basically I want to extend on two images I found that Paolo Ventura took in 2003 for Elle magazine. I searched everywhere on the internet and was unable t find them. I have a book called "Italian Eyes: Italian Fashion Photographs from 1951 to Today" and they were exactly what I had previously seen in my head of images I wanted to create for my portfolio. One image is a radiator with a mosaiced floor. There are then big pearly balls on the floor that could be a broken big pearl necklace or shiny bath beads. The overall feeling though is that its a grungy area with a high class lady somewhere in the presence of it. The other photograph is a shiny clean bathtub drain. There is a white shower liner waving into the image at the top but the main focus of the image is the diamon ring laying haphazardly on the wet drain. Its uneasy to view the obviusly expensive diamond ring sitting on a drian that could take it away for ever. I think these images are perfect. I want to take what Ventura has started and make an entire series of grungy areas with high class expenseive looking props in them. I want to continue with the harsh ellen von unwerth type style that I have previously been working with but change my project to be still lifes only. Ventura used a muted pallette and strong lighting to acheive his images, I want to make them look even dirtier and harsh by making them black and white. I feel the lighting will not be the only contrast, that by making them black and white and grungy looking it will only show the contrast of the location and the object that much more.