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Carl Warner's Food Landscapes
In recent years, Carl Warner’s photographs have been unofficially circulating on the Internet and in mass e-mailings, to the pleasure of thousands upon thousands of viewers. Now, these images and many new ones are collected in one volume.
In the spirit of Play with Your Food, Carl Warner’s Food Landscapes is a colorful and fantastically imaginative collection of landscapes constructed entirely from fruits and vegetables, cheeses, breads, fish, meat, and grains. The book offers a trip around the world in 25 international tableaux constructed from appropriate regional ingredients. Each photo is spectacular on its own, but the effort of constructing it is equally fascinating. Every image in the book is followed by an essay about the creative process and stories from the photo shoots, as well as behind-the-scenes material such as preliminary sketches, making-of photos, detail shots, and a list of the ingredients and their position in the final picture.
In the spirit of Play with Your Food, Carl Warner’s Food Landscapes is a colorful and fantastically imaginative collection of landscapes constructed entirely from fruits and vegetables, cheeses, breads, fish, meat, and grains. The book offers a trip around the world in 25 international tableaux constructed from appropriate regional ingredients. Each photo is spectacular on its own, but the effort of constructing it is equally fascinating. Every image in the book is followed by an essay about the creative process and stories from the photo shoots, as well as behind-the-scenes material such as preliminary sketches, making-of photos, detail shots, and a list of the ingredients and their position in the final picture.
128 pages, Hardcover
First published October 1, 2010
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October 22, 2015
Carl Warner's Food Landscapes is just as it sounds - landscape's made from food, and it was absolutely stunning! This is one of those books you really have to sit down and focus on to really appreciate the exquisite detail that goes into each piece. Creative, beautiful, exquisitely detailed and just breathtaking. These food masterpieces range from almost lifelike and realistic to whimsical and fantastical.
The book features 25 of these food landscapes each on their own two-page spread (of varying sizes). Each picture is followed by a few pages of text (w/more pictures/sketches) that explain the details, the idea, the ingredients, and some of what went into making that scene a reality. If you want to really appreciate these pictures - read the accompanying text. Trust me you'll be flipping back and forth from the text to the picture because you'll probably have missed some detail you didn't notice when you first looked at the picture that's pointed out in the text. And the text really helps you appreciate what went into each creation.
It was really an interesting and beautiful book to take your time and read through. It was amazing.
The book features 25 of these food landscapes each on their own two-page spread (of varying sizes). Each picture is followed by a few pages of text (w/more pictures/sketches) that explain the details, the idea, the ingredients, and some of what went into making that scene a reality. If you want to really appreciate these pictures - read the accompanying text. Trust me you'll be flipping back and forth from the text to the picture because you'll probably have missed some detail you didn't notice when you first looked at the picture that's pointed out in the text. And the text really helps you appreciate what went into each creation.
It was really an interesting and beautiful book to take your time and read through. It was amazing.
June 28, 2023
Carl Warner is a truly unique 21st century sculptor. Carl Warner creates dioramas, and while most people who create dioramas use combinations of cardboard, colored paper, clay and papier mâché to create the scenes which they display, Carl Warner assembles the dioramas that he creates entirely from fruits, vegetables, cheeses and sliced deli meats. He photographs the dioramas that he creates, the photos are the final product (dioramas which are made of food don't last very long even though Carl Warner applies a varnish to preserve them, fruits, vegetables, cheeses and deli meats will deteriorate in a very short amount of time after being exposed to air).
"Carl Warner's Food Landscapes" is a collection of color photos of the dioramas that he'd created, up to 2010 when this book was published.
If you enjoy novelty artworks, you will enjoy this book.
"Carl Warner's Food Landscapes" is a collection of color photos of the dioramas that he'd created, up to 2010 when this book was published.
If you enjoy novelty artworks, you will enjoy this book.
November 10, 2011
As you can see from the cover and title of the book, these are photos of landscapes made out of food. They are done so skillfully that unless you know beforehand it can actually take a moment to realize what you're seeing is food.
The book follows a standard format. There's a two page spread with a photograph and name of the piece followed by 2-4 pages of text including a few pictures of the process of putting the scene together and the original sketch of the scene as well as a box containing a list of ingredients used.
The box of ingredients is helpful and interesting but the text itself is often not necessary. Usually it's I was given a brief to do x by y company so I came up with z scene.
The pictures are gorgeous though and I recommend the book for that reason. There's no doubt that Warner and his team are incredibly creative.
If you want to just see the photos you can see his work here.
The book follows a standard format. There's a two page spread with a photograph and name of the piece followed by 2-4 pages of text including a few pictures of the process of putting the scene together and the original sketch of the scene as well as a box containing a list of ingredients used.
The box of ingredients is helpful and interesting but the text itself is often not necessary. Usually it's I was given a brief to do x by y company so I came up with z scene.
The pictures are gorgeous though and I recommend the book for that reason. There's no doubt that Warner and his team are incredibly creative.
If you want to just see the photos you can see his work here.
May 11, 2014
This book was sitting on a display at the library when I went to pick up my book club book and I thought the cover looked so cool, I decided to take a copy of this too. The pictures are AMAZING. Carl Warner uses all types of food to create beautiful landscapes. The detail of each photo is amazing and some of them look SO REAL it's hard to believe he used food to create them. My favorite was, of course, the London skyline. The book was more than just pictures, though. He describes in detail why he created each image and how, which I found really interesting. It was also cool to know that all the food he used to create these masterpieces was either consumed by everyone who helped or donated to a local food bank. I'm glad I was impulsive and picked this one up.
December 3, 2014
Food Landscapes is as it sounds - lovely, Disney-esque scenes created entirely out of food. There are rivers of meat, skies if salmon, cheesy rocks and broccoli trees. Every minute detail is fantastic and brilliantly positioned. After the first eye-popping scan of the book, do go back and read the marvelous descriptions of the painstaking work that went into creating these lovely scenes.
August 30, 2011
Absolutely amazing photos as well as setup shots and details of how he created each of his food masterpieces. It was a little out of place that he seemed to find God halfway through the book, but I suppose I can let him off :)
March 7, 2012
Wow you have got to see this book! It is flippin' amazing.
April 11, 2012
I love these artworks. Each landscape is a masterpiece. Whole villages could be fed by one installation.
May 5, 2012
Amazing food photoshoots and the fun stories behind them.
July 12, 2012
I read this book because the same artist came out with a children's book. Kind of weird,interesting art. I cannot wait to read/look at the kid version.
January 28, 2013
How Are You Peeling? , you just got schooled!
August 10, 2013
Heel cool gedaan, dagen bezig met 1 foodlandscape.
Behind-the-scenes uitleg over hoe en waarom.
Behind-the-scenes uitleg over hoe en waarom.
June 13, 2019
You have to see this! This man is incredibly talented at making food into art.
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October 1, 2018I didn't finish this book- but it's weird and interesting- as an adult picture book- just cannot
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