Leeks + Potatoes, 2016

In the late 1970s, the George Eastman Museum asked a group of photographers for their favorite recipes and food-related photographs to go with them, in pursuit of publishing a cookbook. Playing off George Eastman’s famous recipe for lemon meringue pie and former director Beaumont Newhall’s love of food, the cookbook grew from the idea that talent in the darkroom must also translate to the kitchen. Published now, nearly forty years later, The Photographer’s Cookbook is a time capsule of the 1970s and includes recipes and photographs from Robert Adams, Richard Avedon, Imogen Cunningham, William Eggleston, among others. In this spirit, Aperture commissioned contemporary photographers to submit a recipe and food-related picture. The resulting works reveal a fascinating look at how today’s photographers depict food, home, and ritual, raising questions about consumption, desire, pleasure, and, in the broadest sense, taste itself.

Dye Transfer Print on Aluminum
Image Size: 19 1/2 x 24 inches
Edition of 3 + 1 Artist Proof
Signed and numbered by the artist

Daniel Gordon (b. 1980, Boston, Massachusetts) earned a BA from Bard College in 2004 and an MFA from the Yale School of Art in 2006. Notable group exhibitions include New Photography 2009 at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Greater New York 2010 at MoMA PS1, New York; and Cut! Paper Play in Contemporary Photography at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (2018). He is the author of Still Lifes, Portraits, and Parts (2013), Flowers and Shadows (2011), and Flying Pictures (2009). He won the 2014 Foam Paul Huf Award and had a solo exhibition at Foam, Amsterdam, in 2014.