I really like Derek Stroup's Candy and Chips series. Here he explains what lies behind his work:

"My recent digital photographs explore the relationship between language, commerce, and objects. These photos begin with candy purchased from my locall convenience store. I photograph them and then use Photoshop to remove all traces of language or other signs. The results are images that are simultaneously familiar and strange. I am curious about this moment of suspended recognition. With labels, we instantly assign these objects to their proper category in our mind. With labels removed, there is a moment when our categorical impulse is suspended. It is similar, but different from, the sensation of encountering a foreign language. In this work there is a clear discourse about branding, and the exposure of the apparatus that enables a manufacturer to assert their brand strength. But there is also a phenomenological discourse that interests me as much, if not more. With the words removed, we are returned to a physical encounter: an object of a certain size, a certain shape, a certain color, texture, and, of course, flavor. These are all small objects, attainable pleasures. They make a direct appeal to our senses. These photographs seem like pictures of sculptures—perfect objects that don’t exist anywhere in the world. All the work in this series oscillates between individual specificity and archetypal form."

Seen on Chad Muthard's Encapsulate and Regurgitate blog.