Incredible Edibles Cheese Bread Poster by Edward Weston Graphics
A 24" x 30" laminated poster. An Incredible Edibles image of a loaf of crusty bread with an interior of Swiss Cheese. Named CheeseBread
The color border available is shown in scan 2 and 3
From an original photograph by Photographer Ed Pardee and published by Edward Weston Graphics.
This is not a computer composite, but actual food that has been carefully sculptured, joined together and photographed. GREAT ART FOR THE KITCHEN. This is one of a series of 24 photographs.
From an article in the Arizona Republic on Sunday, April 13, 1986:
Ed Pardee makes up his fruits-and-vegetables shopping list not just by season, but by size. "I must think of what will fit together," he said. "Peas will fit into peanuts, orange sections into apples, a grapefruit half into a coconut half," he said. "I spend hours selecting not just the right sizes, but perfect, unblemished specimens and in large quantities 40 pounds of bananas, for instance, or 32 whole pineapples." Pardee is not a caterer but a San Francisco photographer-artist with a gift for fantasy and fun. What he does with his huge amounts of perfect produce is painstakingly sculpt them into incongruous combinations. Then he records the transformation in stunning still-life color photographs. His delicious-looking "Incredible Edibles" have been called the world's most unusual food photographs, collected as art by lovers of fantasy and as specialized art by people in any aspect of the food industry. His Peppertomato is just that, a jade green bell pepper sliced open to reveal not its own insides but the cut surface of a juicy-looking, red ripe tomato. California Limes has its usual green rind; the cut surface shows the white and yellow of a halved hard-boiled egg. "The inside of a potato is not terribly interesting," Pardee said. "But scrub up the golden-toned skin, slice it in half, hollow it out and stuff into each half a kiwifruit cut to fit, with its gorgeous green color, and you have something beautiful though unreal. "Sculpting the image is tedious work," Pardee admits. "The only tool I need is a real sharp knife I have developed techniques, but each sculpture needs a different approach. Most take at least eight hours; some have taken up to 40 hours." His most difficult project is titled Pinemelon, in which a tall golden pineapple stands on end, its crown green and spiky, with a large wedge cut from the front and lying beside it. The cut reveals not the yellow flesh of the tropical fruit but the luscious redness of watermelon. "It took me 32 pineapples, the best cuttings from' a few dozen watermelons and 24 hours to create it," Pardee said. "My camera is just 2 feet away while shooting, so any imperfection will show. The flesh of the watermelon must be fitted exactly, so that it does not look like someone carved it to fit but that it grew that way" And, indeed, such is Pardee's perfectionism that all of his fantasy foods do look as though they grew that way: the eggplant sliced open to reveal a cantaloupe (Eggaloup, sometimes called Cantaplant.) And Guacamole Connection, which is a golden-skinned onion outside and a greenish avocado, complete with its unusual seed, inside. Limechini is a long zucchini centered with limes. Pardee said he was inspired by the . surrealistic themes of artist Salvador Dali. "I wanted to go to Paris and be an artist, but my parents urged me to be 'sensible' instead," he said. "At age 16, I subscribed to one of those famous artists courses but dutifully majored in business administration and worked in packaging. "I was bored with it. Is that all there is? I taught myself photography and sold my work on the streets of San Francisco in the '70s. San Francisco photographer Ed Pardee's "incredible Edibles" create unusual combinations of common foods. shell halves), brusselnuts (brussels sprouts wedged into walnut half shells). The designs are sold as original photographs or lithographs Using common fruits and vegetables, some viewers simply do not pick up the incongruity of the subjects. For instance, Cornana shows two hands peeling a banana to reveal an ear of speckled Indian corn, the kernels distinct in their tan to brown shades. Someone once asked me why I photographed a spoiled banana. "Most people, however, flash on the fantasy right away and are delighted." There was a renaissance of arts and crafts, and I liked the artist lifestyle, sitting in outdoor cafes, drinking wine, discussing the meaning of life, having mistresses. "My work caught on; I have sold over a million prints in 30 countries.. I am constantly revising, adding new ideas, dropping others. "But it is amazing that even with His favorite work is Lemon Egg. All the pulp is removed from a lemon half, its rind scraped clean. The photograph shows it lying on its side, and from it has dropped a raw egg. Pardee said a few of his ideas are easy enough to be duplicated by a hostess for an amusing party centerpiece. Examples: eggberries (an empty egg shell cracked open and filled with blueberries).
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