Cover

Publisher Note

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.

Photobook

Golden Apple of the Sun

by Teju Cole

Publisher
Release Place London, United Kingdom
Edition 1st edition
Release Date 2021
Credits
Writer: Teju Cole
Artist: Teju Cole
Identifiers
ISBN-13: 978-1-913620-21-9
Work  
Topics Kitchen, Still Life
Methods Photography, Writing
Language English
Format Embossed hardback
Dimensions 19.3 × 25.3 cm
Pages 136