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Red apples piled closely together, photographed close up – Historic Photograph Print

Red apples piled closely together, photographed close up — historic photograph
Red apples piled closely together, photographed close up. Historic photograph from the Fruit & Vegetable Labels collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

Description

Red apples piled closely together, photographed close up comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.

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Red apples piled closely together, photographed close up

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Piled tightly together and shot from close range, these red apples fill the frame so that each fruit's glossy skin, slight blemishes and shadowed hollows become the subject. The board places the picture among fruit and vegetable labels, a commercial genre in which apples were printed to advertise orchards and growers, often in bright color for shop windows and crate wrappers. Close cropping of this kind turns a simple crop into a study of texture and abundance, and it hints at the sorting and packing work that brought such fruit to market.

Original scan3,000 × 2,284 px · prints to 10 × 8 in at 300 dpi
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