Golden apple of the sun
By: Teju Cole
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: MACK; MACK BOOKS
Published: 2021
Place of publication: London]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9781913620219
Copyright date: 2021
Subjects: Still-life photography; Artistic Photography; Kitchens; Pictorial works; Photographie de nature morte; Photographie artistique; Art photography; Photography; Kitchen
Work titles: Photographs
Description: In the period leading up to the November 3, 2020 elections in the United States, Teju Cole began to photograph his kitchen counter in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Working in the still life tradition of Chardin, Cezanne, and the Dutch masters, as well as such contemporary photographers as Laura Letinsky and Jan Groover, he photographed every day over the course of five weeks. Unlike those forebears, Cole left his arrangements entirely to chance, the bowls and plates moving in their unpredictable constellations. What emerges is a portrait, across time, of one kitchen counter in one home at a time of social, cultural, and political upheaval. Alongside the photographs is a long written essay, as wide-ranging in its concerns--hunger, fasting, mourning, slavery, intimacy, painting, poetry and the history of photography--as the photographs are delimited in theirs. The text and photographic sequences are interspersed with an anonymous handwritten eighteenth century cookbook from Cambridge.