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Presented within “More than a Meal: Airline Meal Service Sets, 1960s–80s” are Jason Peterson’s striking photographs made while flying on commercial airliners. Over the past decade, Peterson has captured cloud- and cityscapes from a familiar yet endlessly enjoyable vantage point: the window seat. Jason Peterson (b.1968) (@jasonmpeterson) is a Chicago-based artist and art director known for his evocative and high-contrast black-and-white photographs of urban environments. “More than a Meal: Airline Meal Service Sets, 1960s–80s” is on display, pre-security, in the International Terminal and online at: https://bit.ly/AirlineMealSets This image was posted on November 18, 2022.

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