From The Fairest Fowl: Portraits of Championship Chickens by photographer Tamara Staples (Flash).
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Matt Linderman wrote this on Jan 25 2007 There are 13 comments.
Gayle 25 Jan 07
Those are the most beautiful chickens I’ve ever seen. I didn’t know there were PRETTY chickens!
Scott 25 Jan 07
Presentation is everything. I’ll take mine with the house salad and the Australian Westend Estate Sauvignon Blanc Semillon.
catherine 25 Jan 07
Thanks for posting these. When I first saw the images I thought, oh a typical blog tactic for being different/whacky/offbeat, but then I really looked at them. My apologies: they are extraordinary. I should have known 37signals wouldn’t go for the cheap shot for effect.
Peter 25 Jan 07
Chickens were free-ranging Asian forest birds before they were domesticated, and therefore originally had a considerably wide range of appearance and beautiful plumage.
That was, before we turned them into food making machines. These are remnants of what they once were, but also what most chickens could look like if we didn’t treat them so poorly: http://www.nocagedeggs.com/
Amie Gillingham 25 Jan 07
Nice! The simplicity and complexity of that subject was fun for our chicken-themed art exhibit back in 2004:
http://www.ebsqart.com/ArtShows/cmd_31_Exhibition_Entries.htm
Geoff B 26 Jan 07
Is gonzo (from the muppets) behind this?
Kris 26 Jan 07
Fabulous! If you like chicken glamour shots, check out the happy little short film “Chickens in the City” on the Independent Lens web site. The Independent Lens online short film festival is my new favorite thing.
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/insideindies/shortsfest/player.html?chosen=chickens
Kevin 26 Jan 07
This blog is losing material and becoming a freak show.
Dan 26 Jan 07
An episode of the radio program This American Life included an entertaining behind-the-scenes segment about this photographer: http://www.thislife.org/pages/descriptions/03/252.html
It’s nice to finally see her pictures after hearing this years ago.
blanka 26 Jan 07
I like these two chickens very much
Juan Maiz 26 Jan 07
Beautiful!
Sadly these are not so… http://meat.org/
sara 26 Jan 07
I wonder if these chickens sound the same as barnyard chickens? Cluck, cluck, cluck…baaak!
David Rogers 26 Jan 07
I’ll take the hackle feathers of these birds—should make for some spectacular fishing flies…
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