- This 10x8 Print features an image chosen by Science Photo Library. Estimated image size 254x168mm.
- Printed on 254x203mm Fuji Crystal Archive paper for stable image permanence and brilliant colour reproduction with smooth tones, enhanced sharpness, and excellent definition. Size refers to paper used
- Image Description: MODEL RELEASED. Woman rejecting a plate of food.
- For any queries regarding this item please contact Science Photo Library c/o Media Storehouse quoting Media Reference 1102925
- © Lea Paterson/Science Photo Library
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10x8 Print, Woman rejecting a plate of food. MODEL RELEASED. Woman rejecting a plate of food. Chosen by Science Photo Library. Printed on 254x203mm Fuji Crystal Archive paper for stable image permanence and brilliant colour reproduction with smooth tones, enhanced sharpness, and excellent definition. Size refers to paper used. This item is shipped from our UK lab.
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27 of 27 people found the following review helpful
Size Name:10x8 Print
I bought two of these and set them facing each other. When I sit in between them my head spins as the two women simultaneously reject the food, each other and, ultimately, the concept of reality itself. Challenging migraines ensue. Recommended.
149 of 153 people found the following review helpful
Size Name:10x8 Print
This is perhaps the best photograph of a woman rejecting a plate of food I have ever owned - if not the best *photograph* I have ever owned. I have it hanging above my fireplace and tend to look at it in times of need, imagining the humorous back story - the calamity of ordering a quorn burger which in fact turned out to be beef. When entertaining guests I tend to come up with a different story each time - that she is my vegan granddaughter, my vegetarian ex-wife, my fussy lover etc. - hence the photo is a brilliant conversation piece. If anything the runner beans let this photo down - their bland nature, their sheer quantity, the lack of dressing - but this is something I have come to live with over the years. It in fact warns one of the ills of bad beans, and bad cooking in general. Before I cook a meal (runner beans with burger on top in particular), I tend to spend several minutes contemplating said photo to instill me with a clear image of the rejection which may ensue if I do not cook with passion and vigor. Thank-you Science Photo Library.
In summation:
PROS: multi-functional, conversation piece, humorous, inspirational
CONS: poor runner beans, could do with sauce/dressing of some sort
In summation:
PROS: multi-functional, conversation piece, humorous, inspirational
CONS: poor runner beans, could do with sauce/dressing of some sort
133 of 137 people found the following review helpful
Size Name:10x8 Print
One rarely encounters a single image that encapsulates an entire sitz-im-leben, and when it happens the encounter is a holistic spiritual/visceral selfquake - a tangible entanglement with the cosmic dark night of the soul.
At one level, we see a woman refusing a plate of food. But why? Is she vegetarian, rejecting the meat? Is she a carnivore rejecting the greens? Is the meal below the standard to which she has become accustomed, or is she simply on a diet? This surely, is the eternal feminine mystery, and as each viewer strives to answer the question they will find themselves drawn into the Nietzschien mirror - is the viewer looking into the picture, or is the picture looking into the viewer?
Or is it too much perhaps to see the woman as Eve, cast out from Eden, clad in pink (PINK, mind, not scarlet) to hide her newly discovered nakedness, one hand raised in horror as she strives to resist a second temptation, or indeed, a second helping?
Here we see the deeply fractured nature of the modern psyche - she rejects the plate with her left hand (the sinister side?), but no one is forcing it upon her - indeed, it is her RIGHT hand which holds the plate.
If we discount the theories of Snackenberg, Lunzsh, Beanburgher et al (I personally find their claims that this is a sexist work unconvincing) there can be little doubt that the message of this image is clear. We are ALL women in pink cardigans rejecting the burger and beans of life, while continuing to cling grimly to both.
But more - as I have argued in 'WOMAN WITH PLATE: A GNOSTIC REAPPRAISAL" (Oxcam, 2008) we are also the contents of the plate. We are the beans (the HUMAN BEANS?) weighed down by the greasy carnal flesh (the burger), hoping that since we are already cooked we will not, ultimately, be rejected by the huge cosmic pink-cardiganed woman.
Or are we?
At one level, we see a woman refusing a plate of food. But why? Is she vegetarian, rejecting the meat? Is she a carnivore rejecting the greens? Is the meal below the standard to which she has become accustomed, or is she simply on a diet? This surely, is the eternal feminine mystery, and as each viewer strives to answer the question they will find themselves drawn into the Nietzschien mirror - is the viewer looking into the picture, or is the picture looking into the viewer?
Or is it too much perhaps to see the woman as Eve, cast out from Eden, clad in pink (PINK, mind, not scarlet) to hide her newly discovered nakedness, one hand raised in horror as she strives to resist a second temptation, or indeed, a second helping?
Here we see the deeply fractured nature of the modern psyche - she rejects the plate with her left hand (the sinister side?), but no one is forcing it upon her - indeed, it is her RIGHT hand which holds the plate.
If we discount the theories of Snackenberg, Lunzsh, Beanburgher et al (I personally find their claims that this is a sexist work unconvincing) there can be little doubt that the message of this image is clear. We are ALL women in pink cardigans rejecting the burger and beans of life, while continuing to cling grimly to both.
But more - as I have argued in 'WOMAN WITH PLATE: A GNOSTIC REAPPRAISAL" (Oxcam, 2008) we are also the contents of the plate. We are the beans (the HUMAN BEANS?) weighed down by the greasy carnal flesh (the burger), hoping that since we are already cooked we will not, ultimately, be rejected by the huge cosmic pink-cardiganed woman.
Or are we?
Most Recent Customer Reviews
The ultimate high water mark of artistic form and function.
I was looking for an image depicting a matching cardigan/wall/meat combo and this fits the bill nicely.
Thank you GOD.
Thank you GOD.
Published 22 days ago by Gordon Johnston
vegetables devour meat
The lady's pink cardigan compliments the texture and timbre of the patty perfectly, when you look at the way her nose wrinkles you can almost smell the warm sticky odour emitted by... Read more
Published 26 days ago by Harry Nicholas
Misleading title
After a quick look I realized that Amazon mistakenly attributed this picture to the Science Photo Library, when actually this engraving is the work of the famed chinese... Read more
Published 1 month ago by J. S. Valdes
Art Encapsulated
The image speaks volumes in the context of the duality of modern Western society. We have so much, yet the conventions and constructed perceptions of acceptabile appearances force... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Dunnie
"Woman"
I am an avid collector of photographic prints of people of all genders rejecting plates of food, and this was one of the first in my collection, and will have a place in my heart... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Adam Gretton
Pride of Place
Although I did not purchase this item myself, I was lucky enough to receive it as a gift from a close friend for Christmas. Wow, it's like all my Christmas's have come at once. Read more
Published 4 months ago by TheCardician
Post Modernism at it's excoriating best
This searing image works best as a post-modern counterpoint to Holman Hunt's The Light of The World, currently hanging in St Paul's Cathedral London. Read more
Published 5 months ago by wormstir
It's confusing and confused
@zingari, you made a good point, but to me it's not the whole picture, which is rather more confusing. Read more
Published 5 months ago by T. Gow
Not rejecting...read on
I've had this item on my living room wall for 3 weeks now and I've retitled it. It is no longer the 'Woman rejecting plate' photo but is known (in my house) as the 'Woman playing... Read more
Published 11 months ago by S. D. Boraston
misleading photograph
It's quite obvious that this lady is not rejecting the plate of food as she is actually holding the plate herself with no evidence of a third party having given it to her . Read more
Published 12 months ago by zingari
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