PHOTO&FOOD

Food in Magnum photographs from the 1940s to today

edited by Walter Guadagnini and Costanza Vilizzi

EARTH Foundation presents a collective exhibition linked to the theme of food and its representation in photography over the last eighty years .

Curated by Walter Guadagnini in collaboration with Costanza Vilizzi, the exhibition was created together with Magnum Photos.

Food, tradition and the social role of food are the protagonists of an exhibition and narrative journey made up of 125 images taken by 29 photographers who are members of Magnum Photos, by the great masters of the second half of the twentieth century, such as Eve Arnold, Werner Bischof, Elliott Erwitt, Inge Morath, Martin Parr, Ferdinando Scianna, David Seymour, Alex Webb, up to the contemporary research of Jonas Bendiksen, Cristina De Middel, Alex Majoli, Paolo Pellegrin, to name but a few.

Divided into five sections , which follow both a chronological and thematic progression, the exhibition considers food in its social, economic and symbolic connotation and underlines the inextricable link between human life and all those activities linked to food that belong to both a natural and cultural sphere .

In a context like that of Grand Tour Italia, these reflections naturally take on an even more significant value, underlining the multiplicity of facets that make food a complex element rich in meanings, traditions and possibilities .