In this episode, The Polygon’s Director Reid Shier is in conversation with Feast for the Eyes curators Susan Bright and Denise Wolff. Feast for the Eyes is on now at The Polygon until May 30.
Dr. Susan Bright is a curator and writer based in London. In 2007 she co-curated How We Are at Tate Britain. In the same year she curated Face of Fashion at the National Portrait Gallery. Other exhibitions include: Home Truths at The Photographers’ Gallery and the Foundling Museum (2014). In 2019, Bright was guest curator for PHotoESPAÑA, and is currently co-curator of f/stop 9: Festival für Fotografie Leipzig. She has authored seven books – Photography Decoded; Feast for the Eyes: The Story of Food in Photography; Home Truths: Photography and Motherhood; Auto Focus; How We Are: Photographing Britain; Face of Fashion and Art Photography Now.
Denise Wolff is senior editor at Aperture. Prior to Aperture, she was the commissioning editor for photography at Phaidon Press in London. Among the books she has commissioned and edited are, The Open Road: Photography and the American Road Trip by David Campany and Feast for the Eyes: The Story of Food in Photography by Susan Bright (for which she co-curated the accompanying exhibitions); Girl Pictures by Justine Kurland; The Colors We Share by Angélica Dass; and Eyes Open: 23 Photography Projects for Curious Kids by Susan Meiselas. Wolff also spearheads Aperture’s Photography Workshop Series.
