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Workman
September 2013
On Sale: September 10, 2013
249 pages
ISBN: 0761176411
EAN: 9780761176411
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Non-Fiction Photography
Welcome to a world where little people have big
personalities. A world that’s upside down and yet weirdly,
wonderfully real. A world where Lilliputian thieves poach
strawberry seeds. Where it takes a guy with a jackhammer to
pop open pistachios. Where skaters fall into a crack in the
crème brûlée, and teddy bear cookies congregate with evil
intent. Marrying inspired photographs of real food and tiny people
with equally inspired captions, photograp her Christopher Boffoli creates a smart, funny, quirky
vision of what it means to play with your food. The scenes
are hilarious and outlandish— a farmer shovels a pasture
full of cow pies, aka chocolate chips; hikers pause at a
rest stop to take in a magical mushroom forest. And the
captions surprise with their cleverness and emotional truth.
Of the proudly gesticulating little chef amid the macarons:
“Right on cue, Philippe stepped up to take all of the
credit.” Of the tiny bather up to her chin in waves of blue
Jell-O: “In her continuing search for a husband, Gladys
decided it was best to put herself in situations where she
needed to be rescued.” Of the broad-shouldered technician
spreading condiments on a hot dog: “Gary always uses too
much mustard. But no one can say so. It’s a union thing.” Happiness, hope, adventure, pride, love, greed, menace,
solitude—it’s our world, seen through a singularly unique
and funny lens, in more than 100 scenes from breakfast
through dessert.
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