The exhibition “Food for the Eyes” in the C/O Berlin is devoted to the history of food in photography. Food photography is that food is not only aesthetically pleasing, but takes a wide variety of topics in focus.
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Food for the Eyes – The story of food in photography
Hot Dogs
This shot of the photographer Martin Parr, has the title “New Brighton, England”. The hungry sun-worshippers – in the first series, especially for Sun worshipers, search the beginning of the 1980s, a break from sun bathing. How would this be better than a Hot Dog?
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Food for the Eyes – The story of food in photography
Fashion show of the sausages
Clothes make the sausages! Because the want to be well dressed. Therefore, the meat sausage dressed in a ham cloak. The grotesque-looking imagery of the “sausage series” by the Swiss artist Duo Peter Fischli and David Weiss are legendary.
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Food for the Eyes – The story of food in photography
Summer on the plate
This “summer Lifestyle” has set Wolfgang Tillmans in 1995 in the scene. Blue cherries, grapes, apricot, berries,… it is not only a naturally good Farbenmix, but also a combination of taste notes that we associate with the summer.
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Food for the Eyes – The story of food in photography
Acid Matter
With your image “Peluquería” (“hair salon”) forces the photographer Ouka Leele the observer in 1979, Thinking: Is this just a successful advertising aesthetics? A nice looking image, with for lemonade is advertised? Or the thoughtful three sucks at the end of lady with the giant straw was the “hair” from the head?
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Food for the Eyes – The story of food in photography
Pigs to Nibble on
Small, pink pigs-chickens – a successful representation of the pleasure and discomfort at the same time. You look so cute and appetizing at the same time is something Unpleasant, remember that they are pigs. To eat or not to eat, that is the question, the British photographer Martin Parr presents to the viewer.
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Food for the Eyes – The story of food in photography
A beach photo of a different kind
It is not a elegant woman on a beach towel, and happy in, the camera is looking. Only her tortured face reflected in a pair of sunglasses in the midst of a terribly ugly Remnants on the beach. The American artist Cindy Sherman would like to go beyond stereotypes and shows how sick expectations can make.
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Food for the Eyes – The story of food in photography
The Hunger knows no rules of etiquette
A snapshot, which is not particularly appetizing. A dinner guest, shoveling Spaghetti in his mouth: Is it the dynamics of everyday life, or the irrepressible Hunger that drives him to such a label-fracture, is known. The fact is: The artist Arthur “Weegee” is Fellig famous for the Chaos in New York in the 1940s, photographed.
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Food for the Eyes – The story of food in photography
The feminist cooking show
The video installation “semiotics of the kitchen” (1975) by Martha Rosler is a parody of the then-growing popularity of cooking shows on television in the 1970s, and the idea that the woman belongs in the kitchen. Harmless everyday kitchen appliances to be threatening weapons. A Satire of a lot of anger and Frustration bubbling.
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Food for the Eyes – The story of food in photography
Hot Dogs
This shot of the photographer Martin Parr, has the title “New Brighton, England”. The hungry sun-worshippers – in the first series, especially for Sun worshipers, search the beginning of the 1980s, a break from sun bathing. How would this be better than a Hot Dog?
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Food for the Eyes – The story of food in photography
Fashion show of the sausages
Clothes make the sausages! Because the want to be well dressed. Therefore, the meat sausage dressed in a ham cloak. The grotesque-looking imagery of the “sausage series” by the Swiss artist Duo Peter Fischli and David Weiss are legendary.
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Food for the Eyes – The story of food in photography
Summer on the plate
This “summer Lifestyle” has set Wolfgang Tillmans in 1995 in the scene. Blue cherries, grapes, apricot, berries,… it is not only a naturally good Farbenmix, but also a combination of taste notes that we associate with the summer.
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Food for the Eyes – The story of food in photography
Acid Matter
With your image “Peluquería” (“hair salon”) forces the photographer Ouka Leele the observer in 1979, Thinking: Is this just a successful advertising aesthetics? A nice looking image, with for lemonade is advertised? Or the thoughtful three sucks at the end of lady with the giant straw was the “hair” from the head?
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Food for the Eyes – The story of food in photography
Pigs to Nibble on
Small, pink pigs-chickens – a successful representation of the pleasure and discomfort at the same time. You look so cute and appetizing at the same time is something Unpleasant, remember that they are pigs. To eat or not to eat, that is the question, the British photographer Martin Parr presents to the viewer.
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Food for the Eyes – The story of food in photography
A beach photo of a different kind
It is not a elegant woman on a beach towel, and happy in, the camera is looking. Only her tortured face reflected in a pair of sunglasses in the midst of a terribly ugly Remnants on the beach. The American artist Cindy Sherman would like to go beyond stereotypes and shows how sick expectations can make.
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Food for the Eyes – The story of food in photography
The Hunger knows no rules of etiquette
A snapshot, which is not particularly appetizing. A dinner guest, shoveling Spaghetti in his mouth: Is it the dynamics of everyday life, or the irrepressible Hunger that drives him to such a label-fracture, is known. The fact is: The artist Arthur “Weegee” is Fellig famous for the Chaos in New York in the 1940s, photographed.
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Food for the Eyes – The story of food in photography
The feminist cooking show
The video installation “semiotics of the kitchen” (1975) by Martha Rosler is a parody of the then-growing popularity of cooking shows on television in the 1970s, and the idea that the woman belongs in the kitchen. Harmless everyday kitchen appliances to be threatening weapons. A Satire of a lot of anger and Frustration bubbling.
The consumption of food is essential to life – and, at best, commonplace. But food is far more than “just” the basic need of food intake. It relates to the private and public life. Many parents today wish to give their children the importance of Taking the meals. As a solid, valid Ritual, it is preferable to Eat a frozen pizza in front of the Computer.
Religions and celebrations of all kinds are without the common food is unthinkable. Food can be an expression of Wishes and fantasies. On our plates, the social discourse is a reflection of our cultural preferences and social conditions.
That is exactly what the exhibition “Food for the Eyes – The history of food photography” in the C/O Berlin, an exhibition centre for photography, in the District of Charlottenburg, housed in the former cultural and information centre of the USA. The curator, Susan Bright, and Denise Wolff will present works of well-known artists such as Nobuyoshi Araki, Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Nan Goldin, Rinko Kawauchi, Laura letinsky published, Martin Parr, Irving Penn, Martha Rosler, Cindy Sherman, Stephen Shore, Wolfgang Tillmans. Their Food photography takes a wide variety of topics in the view, such as wealth and poverty, Tradition and Ritual, consumerism and waste, Gender and race, desire, and disgust.
Wolfgang Tillmans: “Summer Still life” (1995)
Of fashion, advertising, and photo journalism
The exhibition looks back on the presentation of food in the last two centuries. This assigns them to the exhibits in three chapters: “still life” shows how artists and the artists ‘ inside of of the painting have been inspired – like the US-American fashion photographer Irving Penn, if he’s frozen vegetable and fruit cubes arranged. “Around the Table” takes the rituals, values and cultural identities of the common food under the microscope. And “Playing with Food” selects the playful approach: How food can reflect our present humorous?
The “sausage series” by the Swiss artist Duo Peter Fischli and David Weiss – you make props sausages and dress up and such as the Models – therefore, for example, is rather absurd and brings the viewer to Smile. To Think he is excited by the photographs of Cindy Sherman and Martha Rosler: are you questioning the role of women in the kitchen. The colorful cupcakes by the British photographer Martin Parr, in turn, operate enjoy a British cliché.
The subject of food, experience sensual
The exhibition is complemented by an accompanying programme that aims to expand the artistic and culinary delights, and experience. For example, when “Breakfast Club”, which takes place once a month, and a Breakfast in the C/O Berlin combines a Café with a guided tour through the exhibition. Or in a lecture titled “Is it only food when you eat it?” and the Performance “Food Massage Salon” of Eating designer Marije vogelzang. A cooking evening with the artists of the exhibition and a culinary summer cinema program will be.
The exhibition “Food for the Eyes – The story of food in photography” is from the 8. June until 7. To see September 2019 in the C/O Berlin.