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Peluquería, Limones, 1979, C-print.
Courtesy of the artist.
What more is there possibly to say about food? It’s been covered in every imaginable medium painting, writing, film, photography almost to the point of total exhaustion. Anyone with a smartphone can document their meals and share them with the world.
But just when you think there couldn’t be anything left, along comes something like
Feast for the Eyes: The Story of Food in Photography that reinvents the wheel all over again. Actually, that wheel is an oozing hunk of melting brie and an overripe red pear, photographed by American photographer Irving Penn. Garnished with a single black ant, the image traipses along the borderline between luscious and obscene.
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