Wednesday, January 8, 2014

Dinah Fried, Artist

The Bell Jar


Moby Dick


Oliver Twist

The Catcher In The Rye

Alice In Wonderland
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo




While we've spent a large portion of the last month recreating meals from famous movies, a rather dedicated graphic designer called Dinah Fried has decided to go down the literary route. She chose five meals from classic books and took a set of brilliantly minimalist photos so we can see what they would actually look like. Unsurprisingly, we'd be choosing the cheese sandwich on toast with a chocolate milkshake from Catcher in the Rye over Oliver Twist's bowl of porridge. That portion looks a bit measly

Text and image source is Short List.  Link here

See more and read more about artist in this article written by Laura Krantz for NPR.  Link here.







The set-up and final photo (above) for Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis. 
“There were old, half-rotten vegetables; bones from the evening meal, covered in white sauce that had gone hard; a few raisins and almonds; some cheese that Gregor had declared inedible two days before; a dry roll and some bread spread with butter and salt….”

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