Interesting: everybody dives in with an opinion, they are all experts on food and flesh...8/21/10
1.
o beets, a "stand apart" image, introductory
o radishes were "common" - soft pornish
o she liked the more abstract/didn't respond to the humor
o FLESH AS BACKGROUND was most effective - didn't like the blue tones
o liked pressing into flesh radioccio image
o liked small size...images could read more precious (common idea?)
o compare and contrast by shooting in film also
2.
o saw we had 2 ideas: sexy/creepy and playful/clever
both funny and had conceptual depth (as opposed to academic AllThings)
o shown as groups cuz they are NOT stand alone type images
o liked high key pallette
o liked complex design, like reading an alphabet when grouped
o consider floating frame, white frame, big mat
o psycho dimension in sexier ones (pit, neck, mushrooms, chive, ham/cheese)
o liked how they weren't seen as flesh immediately
metaphor for growth/resonating skin with texture
love that color
Best when total transformation...melding food and body and becomes other
(celeric, peanut, potatoes) most abstract
Best when you stop wondering what part of the body and it just IS -
Stuck by mushroom
Combos, ham & cheese with bread picture--the lunchbox series
parts segments interesting -
invitational moments -
expected relationships, and then the unexpected
by the end of series, maybe ALL body parts could be used
OK to crop orange and hair OK plus the melding/embracing sense is good
spuds look like birthing -
nestling in pouring out
TRY
violation -
smashed squished, spilled seeds (vs the cut of the papaya/belly/scar)
check out scale -- bigger may be iconic (whole show maybe 5 images)
very large....the figure and form may transform...can the transformation happen large
like sense of no human hand
check out KODAK ultra color film
check ____________Mandlebaum
Marilyn Mintor
Jean Dunning
Peter Greenaway -Drowning by numbers
Glen Gary Ketchum
Ursa Books across from Gagosian (colleen recommends)
Uta Barthes
Dodd Camera Armitage and California
Self Publish-Be happy site
lovely press jon gittleson
Like shriveled -
Like Ambiguity -
Like colors/pallette
conjure different unexpected food combos -
push away from expected food fotos
cut back on centered images
try changing the llighting, which may change the meaning
anecdote: your eyebrows are indicative of your grooming in general, beneath your clothes
check out chinese photographer at Smart Gallery MADE IN CHINA Show who works with
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