Provocative Series Draws Parallels Between Cattle and the Nude Female Figure (NSFW)

For her dramatic series Beefcakes, photographer Allyson Anne Lamb shoots her own naked body in relation to cattle. Through the use of a flash and colored gels, she paints a mysteriously sensual portrait of woman and cow. Under her lens, the body—both human and bovine— becomes fragmented and divided into mirrored parts: breast, buttocks, udder, flank. In dizzying neon, both woman and beef cattle are released from the lusts and hungers of mankind, appearing like electric phantoms that transcend greedy corporeal appetites.

Lamb’s 2600-pound animals, made all the more massive in relation to herself, seem to communicate with the nude in a secret female language flesh, curves, and milk. No longer something to be consumed, the cow takes on a tender, vulnerable humanity in this nighttime barnyard setting.

via Hashtag Photography Magazine

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