Chiaroscuro with iPhone

This work by an unknown and rather mediocre artist is interesting only in the artist's slavish following of the once fashionable practice of using unprepossessing, "common" people as subjects. So, the wealthy, if not very discriminating, buyer of the picture could, like a Marie Antoinette playing at Shepherdess, romanticise the "simple" life of the peasant and even fancy that he, a man of non-nonsense tastes, would be happy living in a small bedsit with only an iPhone 3GS for illumination. After congratulating himself on his own common decency, the sybarite could then turn to his humble repast of Swan and Caviar with a renewed appetite.

It was photographs such as this that hastened the coming of the glorious revolution.