CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 6/14/2016

The Photographer's Cookbook

Richard Avedon's "Elise Daniels, Bracelet by Balmain, Le Pré Catelan, Paris," originally published in the October, 1948, issue of Harper's Bazaar, is reproduced alongside the photographer's recipe for "The Royal Pot Roast" in Aperture's delightful new release, The Photographer's Cookbook. Originally gathered on a whim in 1977 by Deborah Barsel, short-lived assistant registrar at the George Eastman Museum, this legendary but never-before-published compendium is "a virtual time capsule of the photography of the 1970s," according to current Eastman curator and editor Lisa Hostetler. "Famous masters of the medium such as Ansel Adams, whose iconic black-and-white landscapes were synonymous with the emerging market for art photography at the time, are here, but so are William Eggleston and Stephen Shore, young upstarts whose work was just beginning to draw the attention of the contemporary art world."