Feast for the Eyes

Autorentext

Susan Bright is a curator and writer. She has authored numerous books including Art Photography Now (Aperture, 2005), Face of Fashion (Aperture, 2007), How We Are: Photographing Britain (2007: coauthored with Val Williams), Auto Focus (2010), and Home Truths: Photography and Motherhood (2013). She co-curated How We Are: Photographing Britain (2007), which was the first major exhibition of British photography at Tate. The exhibition of Home Truths (Photographers Gallery and Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago) was named one of the top exhibitions of 2013/2014 by the Guardian and the Chicago Tribune. She currently lives in Paris.

Klappentext

The first book to explore the history of how food has been photographedDelights readers with spectacular photography by artists from William Henry Fox Talbot to Martin ParrIlluminating commentary makes the story accessible to all cooking and food enthusiasts

Zusammenfassung
From basic sustenance to savory repasts, food awakens the senses and touches both private and public life. It can be political, religious, aspirational, commercial, creative, symbolic, national, and regional. Food's complexity of form and meaningand the fact that it's often at handhave made it a much-photographed subject throughout the history of photography.