Douglas Gayeton is a filmmaker, photographer, and writer. His
images are
held in a number of influential museum and private collections
around the
world, and have been featured in numerous print and online media,
such as
Time Magazine. Since the early 90s he has created award-winning
work at the boundaries of traditional and converging media for AOL,
MSN, MTV, Yahoo, Fox, Napster, Vivendi, Sony, Viacom, Sega, Intel,
National Geographic, PBS, Warner Bros, Columbia, and Virgin
Records. Recent projects include LOST IN ITALY, a 26 episode
interstitial TV series Gayeton created, directed, and shot for Fine
Living, and A SECOND LIFE ODYSSEY for HBO, the first documentary
shot inside a virtual world. Gayeton lectures frequently on art,
technology and sustainability.
"An ideal addition to any coffee-table book collection, this tome
features gorgeous sepia-tone photographs and evocative writing that
take readers on a journey through Tuscany by way of food."
--Hamptons Magazine, Marissa Bienstock
"You find yourself fully immersed, taking in all the interconnected
moments of life that have been compressed into the image, and above
all else, slowing down. And by this feat the book perfectly
communicates and exemplifies the Slow Food movement that this
region birthed...It is a wonderful celebration of a lifestyle that
links the food we eat with the community in which we live."
--Black and White Magazine
"With a combination of arresting portraits and personal handwritten
anecdotes from his journey through the heart of Tuscany, Gayeton
has created a charming and riveting story: a ‘flat film’ that
celebrates the principles of the Slow Food movement and the people
whose lives are devoted to growing, preparing and eating food. A
beautiful addition to your coffee table."
--Ensemble Vacations Magazine
"At first glance, this photographic gallery of daily life in
Pistoia may be mistaken for a journey back in time. The sepia-toned
photographs of rural people tending a vineyard or a chicken or a
hand of cards, of local butchers and cheese makers, tell the story
of artist and filmmaker Gayeton's journey forward into a community
still connected to its land...Gayeton expresses and celebrates the
intimacy of that relationship with his stunning photographs that
are artfully annotated in playful script, making each photograph a
story of its own."
--Intermezzo Magazine
"In an absorbing culinary and cultural journey, well-known
photographer and multi-media artist Douglas Gayeton illustrates the
underlying essence of the slow-food movement and the authentic
nature of domestic Italian life...rich and compelling."
--Photolife Magazine
"There are two kinds of food books - those that take on a
sauce-splattered patina and a permanent place above the stove, and
those that sit on the coffee table, a visual reminder to guests
that their host is serious about food. SLOW is a definitely
among the latter, although it stands out primarily because it's
impossible to blithely flip through."
--Time Out Chicago
"Astonishing"
--Food and Wine
"Gayeton's insightful pictures form a timeline and tell a story
more effectively than any single photograph could do...The images
are made even more powerful and memorable through the author's
moving often amusing anectodal essays and the captions, quotes,
commentary, and recipes that are hand-scrawled on the photos."
--Bookpage
"Remarkable...After reading and looking through this book, you may
want to give serious thought to heading for Tuscany."
--THE Magazine
"Douglas Gayeton's Slow: Life in a Tuscan Town is pornography for
the Heat-reading set. It is the Slow Food movement brought to
art."
--Rosecrans Baldwin, The Morning News
"Slow: Life in a Tuscan Town is a pictorial narrative of Pistoia
and its inhabitants that seeks to explain the Slow Food movement in
photographs and marginalia, playfully, even fancifully, like a
modern illuminated manuscript."
--LA Weekly
"If you love beautiful books, Slow: Life in A Tuscan Country by
Douglas Gayeton will be irresistible...This is both a personal
narrative and one that - as great art must do - transcends and
transforms the specific experiences portrayed.
Spectacular."
-Davd Wilk, WristersCast.com
"Gradually revealing insight into a more organic way of living,
Gayeton's rich fusion and layering of images pulls us into a
fascinating culinary and cultural journey."
--Photo Life magazine
"[A] lovely book...Gayeton's collection of candid sepia-toned
images and heartfelt text bring this adventure to life in a manner
that makes you yearn to follow in his footsteps."
--Shutterbug Magazine
"This is a sumptuous and utterly captivating book with many
spectacular sepia-toned 4-color images and gatefolds."
--Stovetop Readings
"Gayeton has captured the gastronomic heart and soul of an Italian
village, then shared it through sepia-toned photographs."
--7x7 Magazine
"This gorgeous book captures the essence of what we now call Slow
Food, food perfectly attuned to the land and culture that produce
it. One look at it makes me want to get on the next plane to
Tuscany."
--Marion Nestle, Paulette Goddard Professor in the Department of
Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health and Professor of
Sociology at New York University. Her most recent book is the
award-winning What to Eat.
"Slow...is part painting, poem, and film, rich with mouthwatering
detail. It's a satisfying and simultaneously hunger-inducing
portrait of living close to the land, in sync with nature."
--Virtuoso Life magazine
"...With 75 dramatic slice-of-life portraits...Douglas Gayeton
invites us to the fields, barns, butcher shops, and dinner tables
where he learned how to live and eat in the Tuscan countryside.
Inspired by pre-Renaissance narrative paintings, the filmmaker
stitched together dozens of evocative, large-format sepia
photographs capturing scenes of daily rural life in Pistoia. He
then etched them with marginalia and centuries-old Tuscan
proverbs...His sumptuous chronicle leaves us hungry for more."
--Travel + Leisure magazine
"Slow: Life in a Tuscan Town gives us a visual and written window
on a rapidly disappearing world, ruled by the land, the seasons,
and simple interactions. Industrialized food is breaking the web
that connects us intimately to what we eat at a cost to our health
and our environment."
--Robert Kenner, director, producer, Food, Inc.
"Not too long ago the entire planet lived on Slow Food. Today life
in the fast lane zips by blurring the fact that real food produced
in natural ways enjoyed with family and friends is a blessing we
need and should all heed. It's immediately clear that Douglas
Gayeton's Slow: Life in a Tuscan Town is the result of a decade of
personal research. it unfolds from a unique recipe combining artful
images, insightful impressions, and intimate stories about his own
culinary slow food odyssey in a small Italian town.
Slow: Life in a Tuscan Town is a photo book that feels like a warm,
friendly, home movie by a talented artist who isn't afraid to share
embarassing moments as well as authentic insights. It's quite
delicious in a visual, viceral and cerebral sense."
--Peter Menzel, photographer and creator of Material World
"Many have tried to explain Slow Food in written words, but few
have managed to communicate the essence of this movement as
successfully."
--Alice Waters, internationally renowned chef and the co-owner of
Chez Panisse, and the founder of Slow Food Nation
"These photographs are rich and undeniably authentic...that goes
beyond the boundaries of nations and languages and represents the
principles at the heart of the Slow Food movement."
--Carlo Petrini, founder of the Slow Food movement
"Douglas Gayeton walked into my butcher shop, and I discovered an
artist.
An artist-photographer, an innovative Creative who has something of
the miraculous in the way he senses the subject, for his capacity
to get inside us with clear perception, and with humanity.
Douglas builds on the truth, expanding the space in a scene of
everyday life, he animates it with personalities, furnishings,
objects and atmosphere.
He sought out genuine Tuscan characters, he took time to understand
them. And here they are.
As a collar or halo, he notes their names, as an apron; their life
stories hand-written as is befitting to ancient, eternal
things.
Each scene is entitled with proverbs or Tuscan sayings,
highlighting our foods, breads and meats.
He offers up his creations steeped in sepia tones, with the flavour
of old daguerreotypes.
For the passion he puts into his work, and for how he depicted my
butcher shop, a simple thank you is not enough."
--Dario Cecchini, Owner, Antica Macelleria Cecchini (featured on
pages 112-113 of Slow: Life in Tuscan Town)
"A timely, elegant and innovative work from one of the most
creative prolific savant thinkers I know. Every time I turn around,
Douglas emerges, after having spelunkered below the cultural radar,
with a body of work, whether it be a film, writings, or images that
capture the true essence fo the subject matter he chooses to
indulge. In short, always ahead of the curve. SLOW is a treasure
trove of "life images" from what could very well be the beginnings
of the most thought provoking movements in food gathering that we
have seen."
--Steve Reiss, Executive Producer, Sea Level FX
"SLOW is a major accomplishment in visual storytelling - one of
those rare works so crammed with life that it's difficult to
classify. Personal narrative? Cookbook? Travelog? All and none. By
whatever door you enter and whatever path you take, SLOW's warmth
of spirit and manifest love of place will inspire new ways to look
around and truly connect."
--Eric La Brecque, Principal, Applied Storytelling
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