![]() ![]() 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. 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. 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. In the period leading up to the Novemelections in the United States, Teju Cole began to photograph his kitchen counter in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ![]()
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