Almost White, Colors of Milk

What is the color of Milk? Is it white? Or almost white? The images in this book show forty colors of human milk. They have been drawn from found footage images representing breast milk and human milk.

 The essay by Romana Sammern is addressing “Colors of Milk” in art history, Meredith Stone comments the film “Almost White” based on the colors of milk and the concept of “almost” and motherhood, and Anna Kathrin Bleuler and Michael Brauer reflect the meaning of white food in “Diner en blanc: The art of white dining dining in medieval and early modern aristocratic culture”. The “Milk Poem” by Irini Athanassakis is a result of her visit of the historic Milk Kitchen « Milchküche » in the legendary Semmelweis Frauenklinik in Vienna, one of the early «lactarium » institutions and questions milk as part of the human body transformed into a commodity.

Almost White, Colors of Milk
Irini Athanassakis
Salon für Kunstbuch, 2024

150 x 210 mm, 74 pp 

ISBN 978-1-990208-36-2