Video: Animal farm. Rob McInnis' glamorous agricultural photography project
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
“What a collective farm!” Some people say contemptuously about things that are opposite to glamor in spirit. But in fact, this contradiction is contrived. Funny photo project Rob McInnis (Rob MacInnis) is intended to prove that the world of fashion, glamor, fashion and other not quite Russian words is very close to the world of cows, dogs, sheep and horses. Meet - trendy animal farm!
As Master Rob McInnis confessed to the New York Times, his idea for this photo project was to "take the aesthetics of fashion shows and apply it to the" lower class "farm animals." Yes, as long as fashion reaches the outskirts and villages, it can turn into its complete opposite. Fortunately, however, it didn’t come to decorating cows and horses with "rhinestones" - McInnis’s idea found expression in the style itself, which was inspired by the works of pop photography idol Annie Leibovitz from the famous Vanity Fair magazine.
“I started photographing pets because they interested me as a metaphor for the fashion world. I wanted to draw a parallel between the fashion-conscious lifestyle and the farm as an example of literal consumption,” says McInnis. Some of the animals we see in his photo are from Angela and Fraser Hunter, who own a farm in Nova Scotia.
"Over the past five years, the project has evolved into a critical review of the role of photography in modern society," continues the author. “I experimented with the genres of modern and fashion portrait, gossip, documentary, story and panorama, always using farm animals as models ".
Despite the rather cruel (in an artistic sense) idea of the author, looking at him animal farm “somehow you don’t think about consumer trends and the struggle of fashion with non-conformism. After all, animals themselves have a charm no less than“stars”(remember, for example, Denis Buchel's photo almanacs about a black-and-white dog's life). Is it inferior to Ksyusha Sobchak? Quite the contrary, although, perhaps, we are simply far from the world of fashion.
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