It is a rare and wonderful thing when an image is innovative, smart, beautiful, and funny all at once. That's why T Magazine's ode to digestion, Salad Days, is such a triumphant piece. As they did in their previous collaboration, Diamond in the Roughage, Richard Burbridge and Robbie Spencer disguise svelte models behind mounds of colorful excess.
Of course, they were not the first to see anthropomorphic shapes in food. Back, way back, in the 16th century Giuseppe Arcimboldo started turning bowls of fruit into people's heads. This guy must have had a sense of humor because while everyone else was painting the Pieta or the Resurrection, he was painting a man made of fish; specifically one with a sea lion above his right ear.
So here's a toast to food; to eating, playing, and wearing it.
All photographs by Richard Burbridge and Robbie Spencer
All paintings by Arcimboldo (Check out these photos and see his paintings come to life)
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Here's a slightly more literal take on the whole photographing-as-Arcimboldo thing: http://quintessenceblog.com/2011/12/arcimboldo-redux-klaus-enrique-gerdes-photography/.
ReplyDeleteIt's nice to see the paintings come to fruition, who would've guessed such a silly concept could be so inspirational? These are great! I think I'll have to add in a link
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