Magic of the Mundane

Katie's Bottle

Katie’s Bottle, photo by Harold Davis.

This is a photo of one of the small, plastic bottles used to feed Katie Rose her fortified breast milk. It’s amazing how photography can make mundane objects magical. Making the mundane magical creates fetish objects, and is the stock-in-trade of advertising.

Related objects: Pacifier; Katie Likes Her Binkie (scroll to the bottom of the story).

[Nikon D300, Zeiss Macro 100mm f/2 ZF Makro-Planar T* Manual Focus Lens, three combined exposures from one second to 4 seconds at f/22 and ISO 100, tripod mounted; photographed on a white background and inverted in Photoshop.]

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