VIRTUAL: Food Porn -- History of Images & Cooking
Tuesday, June 277:00—8:00 PMOnlineTewksbury Public Library300 Chandler Street, Tewksbury, MA, 01876
**PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A VIRTUAL PROGRAM THAT WILL TAKE PLACE VIA ZOOM. Registrants will receive a link to access the Zoom Webinar via email.**
Explore the world of food photography. Learn how imagery has changed our relationship with cookbooks forever, starting with the earliest drawn diagrams of elaborate feasts. Trace the parallel words of food photography as art and food photography as illustration, before the two come together to create the visceral genre of food porn. Then, explore the lifestyle-documentary style of food imagery in the late 20th century and address how Instagram changed the food world. How does imagery affect our perspective on what is delicious? In this class, we'll find the answers.
Led by Sarah Lohman, a culinary historian and the author of the bestselling book, Eight Flavors: The Untold Story of American Cuisine. Lohman focuses on the history of food as a way to access the stories of diverse Americans. Her work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and NPR. Lohman has presented across the country, from the Smithsonian Museum of American History in Washington, DC to The Culinary Historians of Southern California. Her current project, Endangered Eating: Exploring America’s Vanishing Cuisine, will be published in the Fall of 2023. Learn more about Lohman HERE.
Register directly on Zoom HERE. Presented in collaboration with the Chelmsford Public Library.
NOTE: This program will be recorded. All registrants will receive the recording via email within 24 hours of the program.
Registration required via Zoom link.