PURE
IMAGINATI ON
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CONTENTS 4
About the Book
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About the Photographer
Poems 8 11
Mike Teavee
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Pure Imagination
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Little Red Riding Hood And The Wolf
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Augustus Gloop
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Hot and Cold
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Voilet Beauregard
Attention Please!
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I Want It Now
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Snow White And The Seven Dwarf
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Thanks
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ABOUT THE BOOK ‘Pure Imagination’ is a collection of contemporary photographs, inspired by Roald Dahl’s infamous revolting rhymes. This book showcases a selection of nine much loved, childhood peoms. These peoms have been brought to life through the combination of Fine Art, Fashion and Photography. ‘Pure Imagination’ is a photographic story book which shines a light on the more mischevious side of these poems, by illustrating Dahl’s characters through fashion fused portrait photography.
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ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPHER After completing an Art Foundation course at Wimbledon College of Art and Design (2009), Bella initially focused her artistic skills towards Fine Art. She realised that her calling was Photography. Bella is now currently in her final year of Manchester Art School (2013) studying Photography. Bella talks about Photography as; ‘An artistic medium that enables me to manipulate the truth by building a narrative that allows viewers to construct and develop their own ideas and responses. My work is mainly fashion based, which I have combined with aspects of Fine Art. This allows me to explore the creativity of my imagination, achieved by incorporating and manipulating other artistic mediums.’ 6
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VOILET BEAUREGARD MODEL: LIV MULHALL 11.2012
Dear friends. We surely all agree there’s almost nothing thing worse to see than some repulsive little bum who’s always chewing chewing gum. Chewing all day long. She chewed while bathing in the tub. She chewed while dancing at her club. She chewed in church and on the bus; it was really quite ludicrous! 8
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MIKE TEAVEE MODEL: JESS CUSACK 12.2012
So far as children are concerned is never, never let them near your television set. Or better still just don’t install the idiotic thing at all. In almost every house we’ve been, we watched them gaping at the screen. They loll and slope and lounge about, and stare until their eyes pop out. 11
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PURE IMAGINATION MODEL: LANA PALUMBO 12.2012
Come with me and you’ll be in a world of pure imagination. Take a look and you’ll see Into you’re imagination. We’ll begin with a spin, travelling in the world of my creation. What we will see will defy explanation. 12
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LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD AND THE WOLF MODEL:LANA PALUMBO 12.2012
The small girl smiles. One eyelid flickers. She whips a pistol from her knickers. She aims at the creature’s head Bang bang. She shoots him dead. 14
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AUGUSTUS GLOOP MODEL: LANA PALUMBO 01.2013
Augustus Gloop! The great big greedy nincompoop How long could we allow this beast to gorge and guzzle, feed and feast on everything he wanted to? 17
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HOT AND COLD MODEL: JESS CUSACK 01.2013
A woman who my mother knows Came in and took off all her clothes. Said I, not being very old, ‘By golly gosh, you must be cold!’ ‘No, no!’ she cried. ‘Indeed I’m not! I’m feeling devilishly hot! 18
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ATTENTION PLEASE! ATTENTION PLEASE! MODEL: MIA VON HURTER 01.2013
And there, her little greedy eyes See pills of every shape and size, Such fascinating colours too, Some green, some pink, some brown, some blue. She gobbles five, she gobbles ten, She stops her gobbling only when The last pill’s gone. There are no more. 21
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ITHERE’S WANT ITNO NOW EARTHLY MODEL: MIAKNOWING VON HURTER WAY OF 01.2013 MODEL:
I want a ball, I want a party,
JANUARY Pink 2013 macaroons, And a million balloons, And performing baboons and Give it to me now. Don’t care how, I want it now. Don’t care how, I want it now. 23
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SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWAFS MODEL: MIA VON HURTER 01.2013
When little Snow-White’s mother died, The King, her father, up and cried “Oh, what a nuisance! What a life! Now I must find another wife.” However, in the end he chose, A lady called Miss Maclahose, Who brought along a curious toy, That seemed to give her endless joy. 25
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WITH THANKS TO Models
Jess Cusack Jess Mulhall Lana Palumbo Mia Von Hurter
Graphic Designer
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Emily Fairbank
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