The editors of the Royal Academy of Arts Magazine (no. 162 Spring 2024) asked contributors for their favourite depictions of food.
Photographer Benjamin McMahon offered: ‘Stephen Shore’s 1970 photo series “American Surfaces”. The pictures of food were like nothing else I’d seen. Seemingly casually snapped. Fried egg in Pennsylvania, toast in Oaklahoma. Like pictures from my memory.’
Writer and researcher C F Prior said: ‘The food scraps, half eaten fruit and stained linen table cloths suggesting the speedy abandonment of a meal in Laura Letinsky’s still-life photography.’
