The Beauty of Food
When Cy DeCosse moved into the apartment near the San Ambrosio market in Florence, he was immediately attracted by the shapes of the fruits and vegetables, which platinum prints can highlight.
The lemons, beans and cauliflower often came with leaves attached and mushrooms still had clumps of dirt, all of which added interest and contrast.
In platinum, even the most ordinary squash or bean pod seems to glow.
In the Eden of DeCosse … the knuckled vegetables and flowers are accepted and embraced as ‘No trifle but a state of bliss” themselves. They are not the fruits of Paradise, they are Paradise itself…
— John Wood, The Gardens of DeCosse
Apples and Blossoms
Walnuts
Tuscan Lemons
Three Italian Tomatoes
Three Italian Pears
Three Black Radishes and One White One
Three Asian Onions
Sweet Potato Eyes
Sweet Peas
Squash
Squash II
Squash Flowers and Dill
Soup Beans
Scallions
Radicchio Trevisano
Porcini and Nipitella
Onion Sprouts
Onion I
Onion Flowers
Mushrooms
Jerusalem Artichokes
Italian Cauliflower
Dried Gourds
Bitter Melon
Asparagus
