“I have been deluged by requests to sell prints of photography featured in my books since Modernist Cuisine was published,” says Nathan Myhrvold, the chef-scientist behind the cooking lab/photography studio/publishing house Modernist Cuisine. Myhrvold is meeting that demand by opening the first gallery in the world to solely display and sell food photography by a single artist. This gallery opens this May inside the Forum Shops at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.
Myhrvold and his team are known for drilling down into foods and cooking processes until they get to the molecular level, all in an attempt to understand the whys and, therefore, hows of cooking. And anyone who knows the Modernist Cuisine project is familiar with the genre-bending photographs that Myhrvold has published in Modernist Cuisine, The Photography of Modernist Cuisine, Modernist Cuisine at Home, and the forthcoming Modernist Bread.
The Modernist Cuisine Gallery will sell large, limited-edition prints starting at around $1,000 apiece, depending on size, format, and framing. Here’s a peek at a few of the pieces that will be on display when the gallery opens later this year.