The Photographer's Cookbook

Lisa Hostetler (Text by (Art/Photo Books))

Description

In the late 1970s, the George Eastman Museum approached a group of photographers to ask for their favorite recipes and food-related photographs to go with them, in pursuit of publishing a cookbook. Playing off George Eastman's own famous recipe for lemon meringue pie, as well as former director Beaumont Newhall's love of food, the cookbook grew from the idea that photographers' talent in the darkroom must also translate into special skills in the kitchen. The recipes do not disappoint, with Robert Adams' Big Sugar Cookies, Ansel Adams' Poached Eggs in Beer, Richard Avedon's Royal Pot Roast, Imogen Cunningham's Borscht, William Eggleston's Cheese Grits Casserole, Stephen Shore's Key Lime Pie Supreme and Ed Ruscha's Cactus Omelette, to name a few. The book was never published, and the materials have remained in George Eastman Museum's collection ever since. Now, nearly 40 years later, this extensive and distinctive archive of untouched recipes and photographs is published in The Photographer's Cookbook for the first time. The book provides a time capsule of contemporary photographers of the 1970s--many before they made a name for themselves--as well as a fascinating look at how they depicted food, family and home, taking readers behind the camera and into the hearts and stomachs of some of photography's most important practitioners.

Product Details

Price

$29.95 $27.85

Publisher

Aperture

Publish Date

June 28, 2016

Pages

160

Dimensions

6.6 X 8.7 X 0.7 inches | 0.95 pounds

Language

English

Type

Hardcover

EAN/UPC

9781597113571

BISAC Categories:

Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - General

Essays & Narratives

History

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About the Author

Lisa Hostetler is curator of photography at George Eastman Museum, Rochester, New York. Previously she worked as curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., and the Milwaukee Art Museum, where she curated exhibitions including Taryn Simon: Photographs and Texts, In Living Color: Photographs by Saul Leiter, and Color Rush: 75 Years of Color Photography in America--for which she worked as an editor on an accompanying title published by Aperture in 2013.

Reviews

"The Photographer's Cookbook" constructs its own vintage picture of the literal and visual tastes of the era, mixing with the contributors' striking images recipes both esoteric and generic and utterly of their times.--Rebecca Bengal "Vogue.com "
Selected for Vogue.com's Best Photo Books of Spring 2016--Suzanne Shaheen "Vogue.com "
"The Photographer's Cookbook" seems an especially timely tome, given our hunger-inducing Instagram feeds and voyeuristic appetites.--Laura Neilson "T: The New York Times Style Magazine "
This is a book where "I just looked at the pictures" actually flies. But you'd be doing yourself a disservice if you don't at least marvel, like I did, at some of the very excellent recipe-writing from these artists... But should you keep this book on your coffee table or in your kitchen? Get a copy for each room.--Kenzi Wilbur "Food 52 "

["The Photographer's Cookbook"] raises all kinds of questions about consumption, desire, pleasure, and domesticity, and it whets the appetite for a very much larger work about food and photography I ve been left hungry for more. "LA Review of Books"

"The Photographer s Cookbook" constructs its own vintage picture of the literal and visual tastes of the era, mixing with the contributors striking images recipes both esoteric and generic and utterly of their times. "Vogue.com"

But should you keep this book on your coffee table or in your kitchen? Get a copy for each room. "Food 52" "
The Photographer's Cookbook seems an especially timely tome, given our hunger-inducing Instagram feeds and voyeuristic appetites.--Laura Neilson "T: The New York Times Style Magazine "
The Photographer's Cookbook constructs its own vintage picture of the literal and visual tastes of the era, mixing with the contributors' striking images recipes both esoteric and generic and utterly of their times.--Rebecca Bengal "Vogue.com "
[The Photographer's Cookbook] raises all kinds of questions about consumption, desire, pleasure, and domesticity, and it whets the appetite for a very much larger work about food and photography I ve been left hungry for more. LA Review of Books
The Photographer s Cookbook constructs its own vintage picture of the literal and visual tastes of the era, mixing with the contributors striking images recipes both esoteric and generic and utterly of their times. Vogue.com
But should you keep this book on your coffee table or in your kitchen? Get a copy for each room. Food 52"