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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. It includes recipes and photographs from Robert Adams, Richard Avedon, Imogen Cunningham, and William Eggleston, among others. In this spirit, Aperture commissioned contemporary photographers to submit a recipe and food-related pictures. 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.

Archival Pigment Print
Paper Size: 16 x 20 inches
Image Size: 16 x 20 inches
Edition of 7
Signed and numbered by the artist

Gregory Halpern (b. 1977, Buffalo, New York) received a BA in history and literature from Harvard University and an MFA from California College of the Arts. In 2014, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. He has published six books of his work: Harvard Works Because We Do (2003); A (2011); East of the Sun, West of the Moon (in collaboration with Ahndraya Parlato, 2014); ZZYZX (2016); Confederate Moons (2018); and Omaha Sketchbook (2019). He is co-editor of The Photographer’s Playbook (with Jason Fulford, Aperture, 2014) and teaches at Rochester Institute of Technology, New York.