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Food photography: eat with your eyes!

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.



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.

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