The artwork builds an immersive pictorial interpretation based on an academic research project by famous chef Juan Carlos Franco focusing on historical culinary recipes. Shifting dynamically across eras, the photographer recreated these low-key food displays inspired directly by classical master paintings from art history, finding heavy formal references in the work of Leonardo da Vinci, Albrecht Dürer, and others. The horizontal layout anchors a powerful perspective structured around a deep chiaroscuro studio setup, balancing two independent vibrant orange mandarins keeping their organic fresh green leaves and small branches intact One fruit rests over a small dark wooden case positioned directly above the spine layout of a large antique historical book featuring the sharp engraved, all rising from the pitch-black background under a sharp.
The still life photography are a pictorial interpretation based on a research project of the famous chef Juan Carlos Franco, on old food recipes of different periods in history. The photographer recreated the images inspired by paintings and images from these eras, also finding inspiration from artists such as Leonardo DA Vinci, Albrecht Dürer, and others.
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Pictorial Still Life Photography - Mandarinas con Libro, 2021. By Dora Franco
Mandarinas con Libro, 2021
From The Bodegones series
Giclee print on Hahnemuhle photo Rag Baryta paper
Limited Edition.
Unframed
Dora Franco began her artistic career as a fashion model in her country, Colombia, work that continued in Europe and New York, where she posed for artists such as Salvador Dalí and Richard Avedon, among many others. Her interest in the arts led her to study Fine Arts at the Universidad de Los Andes in Bogota and at the Art Institute of San Francisco, where she began her career as a fashion, beauty and interior design photographer. While in San Francisco she studied film and worked on a Francis Ford Coppola production and in 1972 appeared in Fellini's “Roma”. Franco's work has been published in Hola, Vogue Spain, Harper's Bazaar, Vanidades and many other publications. Two of her photographs are part of the permanent collection of the National Museum of Colombia.
