Food & Drink: Modernist Cuisine Photography
books | cooking | nathan myhrvold | photography | May 11, 2023
Words by Vic Arkoff
Showcasing Nathan Myhrvold’s obsession with food, photography, and science, Food & Drink is a slip-cased art book collecting 200+ delicious photographs from the award-winning Modernist Bread and Modernist Pizza plus Myhvold’s Modernist Cuisine Gallery, the first gallery showing food photography by a single artist.
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Part artist, part scientist, Myhvold uses robotics, microscopes, high-speed video, and custom-built cameras to play with his food. He snaps condiments exploding out of canons (a pun on fast food?), extreme closeups of fruit and seeds, birds-eye views of orchards and fields, and shatterproof wine glasses being put to the test.
The visual feast focuses a lens on the details of consumables from unexpected angles that dazzle the eye, whet the appetite, and leave the mouth agape. As the book’s mesmerizing half-latte portrait attests, finally this is an art photography book that actually belongs on the coffee table.
