THE VORACIOUS PHOTOBOOKS - TALKSHOW
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As part of the exhibition The Voracious Photobooks, we are organizing a meeting with Susan Bright, author of Feast for the Eyes and Matthieu Nicol, collector of recipe books from the 50s-80s. An opportunity to approach the theme of culinary imagery from a historical and artistic point of view.
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* FEAST FOR THE EYES *
Since the origin of photography, food has been a recurring theme. It can be political, religious, ethnic or commercial, and can be found in various contexts: cookbooks, magazines, art books, catalogs or more recently social networks. Susan Bright takes up chronologically, and through a large number of photographers, the evolution of food photography, where the genres are diverse and relate to art, everyday life and photojournalism.
* SUSAN BRIGHT *
Susan Bright is a curator and writer. She has worked for institutions including Tate Britain , the National Portrait Gallery in London, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago . She is also the author of numerous books including Art Photography Now (Thames and Hudson, 2005), Face of Fashion (NPG, 2007), and Home Truths: Photography and Motherhood (2013).
* FEAST FOR THE EYES *
Since the origin of photography, food has been a recurring theme. It can be political, religious, ethnic or commercial, and can be found in various contexts: cookbooks, magazines, art books, catalogs or more recently social networks. Susan Bright takes up chronologically, and through a large number of photographers, the evolution of food photography, where the genres are diverse and relate to art, everyday life and photojournalism.
* SUSAN BRIGHT *
Susan Bright is a curator and writer. She has worked for institutions including Tate Britain , the National Portrait Gallery in London, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago . She is also the author of numerous books including Art Photography Now (Thames and Hudson, 2005), Face of Fashion (NPG, 2007), and Home Truths: Photography and Motherhood (2013).
* MATTHIEU NICOL *
In 2016, Matthieu Nicol discovered the cookbook Gastronomy of Horse Meat, which reawakened in him a passion for cookbooks from the 50s-80s.
Fascinated by traditional images and stagings, sometimes artistic, sometimes absurd, he has been finding his books in markets and flea markets that are witnesses to the changes in our society. Founder of a communications agency and the artistic direction studio Too many pictures, Matthieu Nicol has the gift of making canned sauerkraut and Tupperware captivating. To follow his discoveries: @vintage_food_photography