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Teju Cole: Golden Apple of the Sun

Teju Cole: Golden Apple of the Sun

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In the period leading up to the November 3, 2020 elections in the United States, Teju Cole began to photograph his kitchen counter in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 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. 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. 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. The text and photographic sequences are interspersed with an anonymous handwritten eighteenth century cookbook from Cambridge. Golden Apple of the Sun is a luminous and humane work, presented with the formal boldness and oblique intelligence we have come to expect from Teju Cole.

 

Title: Golden Apple of the Sun
Publisher: Mack, 2021
Author: Teju Cole
Photographer: Teju Cole
Graphic Design: Morgan Crowcroft-Brown
Format: Embossed Hardback
Size:  19.3 x 25.3 cm, 136 pages
ISBN: 9781913620219
Edition: -

 

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