Day by Day – Rossa Bella, A Study in Red
WHO: Anon Rosso
WHAT: Photography-Art-A-Day Genre Project featuring the figurative photographs of Anon Rosso
WHEN: August 13, 2007 – August 13, 2008
WHERE: www.rossobella.com and eBay
Photographer Anon Rosso’s Rossa Bella - A Study in Red made her debut into the art scene as an art-a-day artist. Originating as a blog on www.rossobella.com, her intimate images of red juxtaposed upon the female figure are presented one day at a time. Working with small limited editions of ten, the first is auctioned off on eBay. The remainder of the editions will be sold through her on-line gallery or at various venues.
Influenced by historic photography and illustration, Rosso’s photographs have a vintage quality. Small in size, she invites the viewer to come closer. Each image is only four and a half inches by seven inches, reminiscent of French Postcards. They are digitally produced and printed using archival pigments and paper.
Rosso is also her own model. Rather than using a younger art model, she has chosen to depict her own body as an example that art can transcend age. In a world of anorexia or self-image problems, she finds her own body, softened by age, to be an alternative to the bone thinness perpetrated by the fashion industry.
“Though I am not obese,” says Rosso, “I am no longer in my twenties and fanatical about keeping off the excess pounds. I find as a am beginning to round the corner of forty, that age causes its own pattern of beauty and it has nothing to do with abstaining from food.”
As for her passion with the color red, Rosso chose the color as a tongue-in-cheek reference to her last name.
The photographs in this series are produced daily and can be found on Rosso’s blog at www.rossobella.com. Her work is available for exhibition.
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