The Big Picture: How Food Photos Have Told Our Story Over The Decades
The new book Feast for the Eyes is a collection of images that portray the many ways we relate to food: as advertisements, art and even political statements.
Photography documents life — and food, whether in the fore or background, seems to always be in the picture. The two intersect in a new book, Feast for the Eyes, written by photography curator Susan Bright and published by Aperture.
The way that food has been photographed over the years is a reflection on the times we live in. The first still-life like images of overflowing fruit baskets soon branched out into ways of commercializing food. As photography evolved, food was sometimes used to
