Picturing Food
Flipping through images of the Getty’s Tasteful Pictures exhibit, KCRW’s Evan Kleiman captured the essential puzzle of taking pictures of food. “We can’t just shut up and eat,” she said to the capacity crowd. “We have to ponder.” Kleiman joined Artbites’ Maite Gomez-Rejón, photographer Charlie Grosso, and Gastronomica founding editor Darra Goldstein to figure out what so moves us about food captured on film – or by digital camera. Warts, bumps, fuzz, shine The earliest food photographs, dating to the mid-19th century, were modeled after the still-life arrangements and …
