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Gahhhhhhhhh. That's disgusting and especially the bacon/ham/whatever-pork-product one! Some people are beyond sick. lol

wow. this is offensive on several levels.

Helmut Newton did this eons ago.

Unlike these he made his sexy.

The photos above first looked to me as if the goal of the photographer was conceptual art but at a closer look at the website it looks as if the goal is high-fashion photography.

Yes, Helmut Newton does come to mind in reference to this but then again his images had a sharp intense focus on sex with undertones of violence. There was no flatness of surface look in his photos which the ones above do have - the ones above are passive not aggressive and Newton's outlook was vividly aggressive.

It is interesting how often meat is used in a core way for conceptual art (ha ha that sounded funny but I'll leave it as is) - more than the other food linked items that could be used as focus.

Here's some meat couture . There's Dead Meat-Doves-and-Fishes here at the Lever House. Meatpaper is a journal who describe themselves as:

Meatpaper is a print magazine of art and ideas about meat. We like metaphors more than marinating tips. We are your journal of meat culture .

Very amusing in its way. Would it still be so if it were titled Vegpaper? I'd probably fall asleep reading Vegpaper.

Back in 1990 Molly O'Neill described a gastrofantasia extravaganza performance art "do". The scene seems to have altered a bit since then in terms of art and food and what is going on in the artworld that would try to blend the two, instructing one from the other and vice versa.

As to the photos above, two things pop into mind.

The first is a memory of how it feels as a female to be all dressed up in a provocative style walking by a construction site. One really wants to ask the guys "How many pounds do you want?" for one does feel as if one were a piece of meat. Chomp chomp.

The second is the Grandma in Little Red Riding Hood who suddenly turns into the wolf, jumping out of the bed with sharp teeth suddenly exposed with the sudden cry "The better to eat you with, my dear!"

Finally though, if I were asked to give any piece of advice to the model draped with corpus delecti above, it would be to take a look in this mirror. If you like it, have a bite.

I agree with most people - those pictures are a bit bizarre. I have to say the model's haircut is quite cute!

this is just disgusting and offensive!!!! Where's PETA when you need them???

Very nice but I would like to see the same necklaces and stoles/scarves with some gold leaf applied here and there with a draping of fine semi-precious stones in tones to match (dripping from the rabbit's mouth/circling the swordfish's bone/embroidered onto the fat areas of the ham) would really add to the overall look.

It's all in how you look at it.

It very well could be, moibec, that the intent of the photographer was to make the viewer focus in on exactly what you are talking about.

It's possible that linking the sight of meat in its brutal raw state with the image of a coldly beautiful woman is meant to bring to mind an idea or two.

One idea might be how as women at times we might feel like food. The old joke about how one can feel as if one were on display at a meat market when walking by a group of men who are interesting in a very specific way is an example of that, put less roughly.

Another idea might be to point out the disparity between the sophisticated look of a young healthy well-to-do woman with the fact that indeed that look might come partially from chowing down on the meat that those animals provide us. Meat does not come from little plastic trays in the supermarket - it does come from these living things.

I appreciate the shock factor. I like when people (including myself) get startled out of their self-protective shells.

So I'm happy for the exercise of posting these photos. :)

And I always appreciate seeing good haircuts.

Thanks, Karen. You made my point exactly, before I had the chance to jump in here. Cool find, Robyn!

Gag. They kinda look like they've been autopsied and the ME didn't replace their skin.....

I love Karen Resta's meat market reference! *insert wolf-whistle here*

www.coolhunting.com/archives/2007/09/bacon_scarf.php

this bacon scarf would be way cuter on her.....

Interesting how chocolate (as in the body-paint that is widely available now) and whipped cream are considered marvelous additions in general, quite tittilating and acceptable foods to add to the idea of the unclothed body for most but meat however creates a sense of general disgust.

I will be sure to wear chocolate and whipped cream to the Prom.

And will remember to avoid wearing any meat.

Are these photos from the 2008 PETA calendar?

Offensive..this site is about good food, good memories and camaraderie..skip the controversial.

Nice Prosciutto!

First, I think these pieces are interesting. Not necessarily something I would own, but definately something I can appreciate and might go to see more of.

Now, put fur on all of these pieces, or change them from raw meat to leather, and the comments would probably be more like : "Wow! Where can I get that necklace!"

Guaranteed.