Golden Apple of the Sun - Hardcover

Cole, Teju

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1913620212 ISBN 13: 9781913620219

Verlag: MACK, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

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 illustrious forbears, Cole left his arrangements entirely to chance, “the bowls and plates moving in their unpredictable constellations.” What emerges is a surprising 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. Golden Apple of the Sun is a luminous and humane work, presented with the formal boldness and oblique intelligence we have come to expect from Teju Cole.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: MACK
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1913620212
• ISBN 13: 9781913620219
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 136
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