Marcel Winatschek

Pizza Is Art

Jonpaul Douglass photographs pizza. Finally, some art I can actually understand. Not restaurant shots, not styled for a magazine—he finds pizza in the world, against puddles, next to fences, with a pug, and he shoots it like landscape photography.

The absurdity is exactly the point. Pizza is the thing you eat without thinking, the total throwaway meal, and there’s something perfect about someone treating it like it matters. The photographs aren’t trying to make pizza fancy or say something clever about consumption. They’re just saying pizza exists in the world and it’s worth looking at.

That’s all it needs to be. Pizza is already art.