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The fabulously expressive Atong by Mark Pillai for Russian Vogue. WOW.
A fig, on a cube of Tofu, on a cut of salmon. Remember that Irving Penn photograph for Vogue magazine? Because I’ve been researching British photography, I came across an image in Elle magazine of a lemon squeezer in the shape of a spider, a Phillipe Stark piece de résistance evocative of Louise Bourgeois. It was an innovatively styled photograph, graphic and strong. It was by Matthew Shave, a portfolio I bookmarked a while ago, but haven’t seen in a long time. I revisited and, much to my delight:
Driven by wit and well-executed with a sophisticated sense of conceptual integration, these images are great examples of evocative textural contrasts. Matthew Shave has a great sense of gestural wit. Refreshing…
Oh, and that previously classic: the fig, the Tofu cube, the salmon, and the photographic sarabande they together create can be found in the book Still Life : Irving Penn Photographs, 1938-2000
