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October 9, 2010
I've always wanted to buy a skeleton and to play around with it photographically in the studio. Francois Robert did. He took took delivery of a box containing 206 separate bones, each the real thing, not plaster or resin. He spent hundreds of hours working with those bones, arranging them painstakingly into striking, iconic shapes, each five or six feet wide, and photographing them.
Francois Robert, Gun, from Stop the Violence archival ink jet print
What a stunning idea! Simple, evocative and powerful. Beautiful design but haunting imagery.
Robert had a portfolio that had always featured pictures of animal skulls, recovered from his frequent trips to the desert. He had also spent five weeks amongst the collections of the Field Museum of Natural History, taking photographs of different animal skulls.
Another series by Francois is called Faces, which finds friendly, odd and interesting facial characteristics in everyday objects. Another is called Contents.
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