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Description: Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford in costume on the set of the Taming of the Shrew.
Hungarian-born artist Nickolas Muray is now best recognized for his iconic photographs of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, his lover and friend.!
Why We’ve Always Been Obsessed With Photographing Our Food
Art & PhotographyCulture Talks
From Cindy Sherman to Martin Parr, photographs of food reveal bigger ideas about the way we live our lives, as a beautiful new book from Aperture demonstrates
TextStevie Mackenzie-Smith
When photographing food, nudging a condiment into frame or omitting an unseemly serving dish is nothing new.
For as long as we’ve taken photographs, we’ve captured what we eat with artifice. Reading Feast For the Eyes: The Story of Food in Photography, a fascinating new Aperture-published book surveying the history of food through a lens, it’s something of a relief to learn that we are not the only generation to suffer the self-conscious indignity of rearranging cutlery for aesthetic reasons.
Beneath a bright butter-coloured cover, pictures by Man Ray, Sophie Calle, Stephen Shore, Cindy Sherman, Martin Parr, Wolfgang Tillmans and Nobuyoshi Araki jostle with Betty Crocker’s Baked Alaska, fash
