MAS110 Photo Essay - Food & Vibrancy
By Caroline Kim (42861144) and Stacey Aranha (42866804)
Theme: Representations of Food in Urban Spaces
Subtheme: Vibrancy
Music: Bright Lights, Late Nights (S Strong Remix) by The Speakeasies Swing Band (2012) - Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License Type
The central theme that inspired
our photo essay was to explore the versatility of representations of food in
urban spaces. Significantly, we strived to capture the vital essence of food in
everyday life, centring particularly upon as Murray (2008: 155) refers to as
the “ability to locate the beauty in the mundane”. Additionally, in order to
emphasise the beauty of food, opposed to the mundane and practical uses of food
in everyday life, we chose the sub-theme of vibrancy. Hence, by juxtaposing the
varying colours and tones of food, places where food are served and consumed allowed
for a broader range of images to be produced. Food, being an essential aspect of life ‘often goes unnoticed’ due to its disposable nature and thus, transcends
upon Murray’s category of ‘ephemera’. This closely interrelates with ‘everyday
aesthetics’ as it significantly demonstrates something such as food that is very
much regarded as an integral, immediate function and necessity of a human
being's everyday life. The photos used were all taken in the CBD as we
felt this distinctly accentuated upon the concept of the ‘everyday aesthetic’
quality as it fundamentally encapsulates not only urbanized shots of the way food is
presented but also analyses and captures the ways and places people serve, buy
and consume food.
References
Murray, S (2008) 'Digital Images, Photo-Sharing, and Our Shifting Notions of
Everyday Aesthetics', Journal of Visual Culture, vol. 7(2), pp. 147-163.
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