Brooke DiDonato Captures Fashionable Malaise in Her Unusual Stylized Images — Colossal

Brooke DiDonato Captures Fashionable Malaise in Her Unusual Stylized Images — Colossal



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#Brooke DiDonato
#humor
#surreal

July 11, 2024

Grace Ebert

Brooke DiDonato Captures Fashionable Malaise in Her Unusual Stylized Images — Colossal

All photographs © Brooke DiDonato, shared with permission

Regardless of the preppy ’80s aesthetic, Brook DiDonato’s pictures communicate on to a recent ennui. An absurdly lengthy rotary telephone twine wraps a girl in a floral costume to the purpose of immobility, whereas one other determine stands atop a stack of books so tall their head shoots by the attic. The photographer (beforehand) is understood for her uncanny compositions that twist what seems like a typical encounter with a bookish buddy or chain-link fence into a wierd, confounding scene.

DiDonato’s first monograph is at present funding on Quantity, a writer that features equally to Kickstarter and asks patrons to again the mission earlier than printing begins. Characteristically titled Take a Image, It Will Final Longer, the e-book offers an summary of the artist’s disorienting pictures and perception into her observe and course of.

Discover extra of DiDonato’s work and glimpses behind the scenes on Instagram.

 

legs in blue pants and loafers stands atop a stack of books that is the height of a door. the persons body and head are through an attic

a white woman in a floral dress stands barefoot next to a curtained widow with a ridiculously long rotary phone cord wrapped around her body and face

a person lies on mattresses on a wooden bed frame with their legs pointed toward the headboard and their upper body hidden by a hanging jacket. their hands apppear at the bottom of the jacket

a man sits in a chair and talks on the phone that sprouts green plants

a pair of legs in blue pants and blue shoes sits on a yellow couch with another par of legs appearing to emerge from the left side over the back of the couch. arms hang over the opposite direction

legs poke through a round woven rug which is worn like a garment and obscures the rest of the figure's body. a hand holds up the rug at the top

#Brooke DiDonato
#humor
#surreal

 

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