The Photographer's Cookbook

by Lisa Hostetler (Text by)

Overview

Copublished by Aperture and the George Eastman Museum

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781597113571
Publisher:	Aperture Foundation
Publication date:	06/28/2016
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 8.70(h) x 0.70(d)

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.

Editorial Reviews

[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

From the Publisher

Selected for Vogue.com's Best Photo Books of Spring 2016

Vogue.com - Suzanne Shaheen

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.

Food 52 - Kenzi Wilbur

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 - Rebecca Bengal

The Photographer’s Cookbook seems an especially timely tome, given our hunger-inducing Instagram feeds and voyeuristic appetites.

T: The New York Times Style Magazine - Laura Neilson