In 1990, Jeanne Dunning began a series called “Samples” that focuses specifically on bodies and food. She photographed fruits and vegetables at close range with the goal of creating images that resembling human organs or orifices. A skinned tomato, for example, is reminiscent of a swollen tumor. According to Dunning, these images, which both attract and repulse the viewer, “came out of thinking about how the body, especially our own, seems like it should be so familiar, but actually some of the simplest, most everyday aspects of our physicality are things that we ignore and deny—I was thinking that the body is surprisingly foreign and unfamiliar, even monstrous.”

Label from One Another: Spiderlike, I Spin Mirrors, March 7–June 1, 2014