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"I'll never forget the first time I saw Paul McCarthy's \"Propo\" series of photographs in the early 1990s. The exhibition featured four-by-six-foot Cibachromes depicting the props the artist had used in his performance pieces from the '70s and '80s, each individually shot against backdrops of various colors. There was a filthy bottle of Johnson's baby lotion, a feculent jar of Miracle Whip, a couple of decapitated dolls, and other characteristically lurid tchotchkes from the world of McCarthy. They made quite an impression.\n\nPinterestFacebookThe hippopotamus that inspired Jaillite's new photography business, Hippopota.\n\nFor the past two years, Christian Jaillite has taken that idea\u2014photographing a single object at enormous scale against a blank background\u2014and put a more, shall we say, kid-friendly spin on the subject matter. It all started with his son's beloved stuffed hippopotamus, which Jaillite shot and printed on a four-by-five-foot canvas to hang in his family's dining room. As more and more of his guests complimented the image, Jaillite decided to start a business\u2014appropriately named Hippopota\u2014to commemorate quotidian items with some special emotional resonance.\n\nPinterestFacebookA more grown-up commission captures a bouquet of hydrangeas.\n\n\"Everybody has something that they love but don't necessarily want to have out on display,\" says Jaillite, whose day job is managing director of the rug-and-fabric company Elizabeth Eakins. \"The photos are clean and modern without being overly sentimental.\"\n\n\u2028 At the moment, the bulk of Hippopota's commissions are for shots of stuffed animals, blankets, chew toys, and other items related to children and pets, but Jaillite has also photographed more adult fare, such as a judge's gavel and fishing lures. And who knows\u2014he may yet find a client with a fervid attachment to alternative sandwich spreads. [*hippopota.com\n\n*](http://hippopota.com/Hippopota/Hippopota.html)"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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