Why We’ve Always Been Obsessed With Photographing Our Food

When photographing food, nudging a condiment into frame or omitting an unseemly serving dish is nothing new. For as long as we’ve taken photographs, we’ve captured what we eat with artifice. Reading Feast For the Eyes: The Story of Food in Photography, a fascinating new Aperture-published book surveying the history of food through a lens, it’s something of a relief to learn that we are not the only generation to suffer the self-conscious indignity of rearranging…