Food Presented in 1910

Here are some books found on this website: http://historiccookingschool.com/1910-dr-miles-cook-book/

These could be useful....so far I have found this lady (Emma Churchman Hewitt ) who published a book with recipes and images of those foods from the 1910s.
Here are some of the pages from this link above, these images show how food was shown in cookbooks in 1910. Food was drawing/illustrated rather than photographed.

My first shoot

Chocolates (White, Milk and Dark)

 

 

Florentines 

Banana, Chocolate and Walnut Loaf

 

 

I think that this first shoot worked quite well, as the lighting is good, as well as the central focus is always the food (which is the main objective).

The composition used with this shoot was mainly the rule of thirds, this makes the image stronger due to the visual elements used in the images. This is to show off some of the texture of the food, the ingredients, and to make the food look mouth watering and appetizing to eat.

 

This shoot could be improved by looking more in depth  of an artist and then respond to them, by taking images in the way in which they would have taken them. This would help as it would give me a better idea on how to position the food, on what angle to take the images at to get the best photo, and have more inspiration to what I could do with the food.

 

 



Artist To Look At In More Detail (initially)

Sarka Babicka- and her blog: Cook Your Dream

2009-2014

 

Carl Kleiner (links):

 http://www.jeanniejeannie.com/2011/08/stunningly-simple-minimalist-cookbook-the-ikea-homemade-is-best/

http://www.fb.se/work/ikea/homemade-is-best

http://minkmgmt.com/carl-kleiner/

 

 

Michael Kay 

 

 

Rick Foulsham

 

 

 

William Reavell

20th Century Food

1900s Food

This page gives a bit of background on how the food situation was like in this century. This was the time with the rationing, due to the wars that occurred.
Also in the first decade of this century, was when scientists discovered VITAMINS and the effect they have on your body. This changed the diets of many people all over Europe and Britain.

Also the discovery of food colourings and chemicals that help with longer shelf life of products, however some of these were found to be harmful and were later banned. Another development was genetically modified food.

Technology development in Aeroplanes and transport have helped in the ability to trade products with other countries. This is helpful as it is more economical to buy fruit from other countries where the climate is perfect for the growth of the particular fruit and have them transported to a country where they would've artificially create the perfect climate for those particular fruit, which could cost a lot. Also this is economical as it helps the poorer countries gain more money. 

New Plan (26.9.14)

Now I plan to look at the 20th century rather than starting from the 1600s till now, this is because I couldn't find feasible recipes to make and photograph. So I have decided to stick to the 1900s, then I may end up narrowing my timescale to, say the 1950s or the 1970s, etc.

 

But we shall see where this ends up.

 

What I plan to do next is to now start experimenting with different techniques, looking at different artists and then respond to some of their styles in which they photograph food.

 



Plan (for now) From the 23/9/14

To narrow my idea, I am only going to look at recipes from the earliest of the 1600s (17th Century).

I also need to find artists from each century to be inspired by and to respond to, for my artefact. Another thing, I only need to find a couple of recipes from each century (starting from the 17th Century) to use for my images.

 

Need to specify with what type of food I am going to photograph... :

- only desserts?

- or only main courses?

- or for each century choose a main course and a pudding to photograph?

 

Questions to ask myself:

-Am I going to choose one artist to be inspired by, and use their technique for ALL recipes that I have (and will) research?

- Or am I going to use artists from each of those centuries to be inspired by to photograph that food from that century?

- What kind of book am I  going to produce?

*Recipe book? where people will actually make recipes from OR

*Aesthetically pleasing food book? Like a historical cookbook/timeline cookbook/food photography book with a bit of background information on how food was presented in earlier centuries?

 



Medieval Recipes From England

http://medievalcookery.com/recipes/index_england.html

Here are more recipes from different eras (from the 14th century to the 17th century). 

Useful recipes from the 18th century re-written for the 21st century kitchen. 

This may help for finding recipes to experiment with for this era, however there are no images to go with these recipes so this is not very helpful for I do not know how the food is meant to look like. 

http://recipes.history.org

Cookbooks and Recipes From The 1900s

http://www.buzzfeed.com/ariannarebolini/truly-upsetting-vintage-recipes#1k08wky

1974 Recipes:

Here are some recipes from the 1900s with images of the food to go with the recipes. These images show how food photography has developed from the 1700s and the 1800s, where there is a use of colour co-ordination and thought of composition, making the image aesthetically stronger. 

My Plan (for now)

What I plan to do is to research old recipe book layouts and recipes. Then try out some the recipes and photograph the food how they would have been photographed in those years. 

Then I plan to create my own recipe book, starting with a bit of background of the history of food photography, then begin a timeline of food and how it was photographed from about the 16th/17th centuries to the present day. 

Research the sources of Helen Grace Ventura Thompson's blog on Foodie Bugle Journal, to find more information on the history of food photography. 

Old English Recipes

17th Century English Recipes
To make French Macaroons

A Daily Exercise for Ladies and Gentlewomen, 1617
PERIOD: England, 17th century

 

1700-1900 The Evolution of Shortbread

http://worldturndupsidedown.blogspot.co.uk/2010/10/evolution-of-shortbread-shortbread.html

Luis Egidio Melendez (1716 - 1780)

http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/artists/luis-melendez

http://www.fineartprintsondemand.com/artists/melendez/prints.htm

Helen Grace Ventura Thompson

History of Food Photography Blog

 

Carl Kleiner, Pepparkakor, in Hembakat Är Bäst, 2010.

This is a book that has used the Swedish recipes from an IKEA recipe book. In this book it shows the before and after shots of baking... before being by having all the ingredients layed out in a geometrically shaped compositioning. And after, showing the finished product. All photographed from a birds eye view, on different coloured plain backgrounds.

IKEA/ Homemade is Best

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.amazon.com/What-Cook-How-Jane-Hornby/dp/0714859583

In this book they also separate the ingredients and photograph them before making the finished product, also they show the steps so that the viewer knows what it should look like at different stages. The images are also taken from a birds eye view.

http://helengraceventurathompson.com/blog/historyoffoodphotography/?p=29

 

 

 

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00s54dg

Olive Magazine

Olive Magazine - lulusnotes.com : 

Food Stylists
- Jennifer Joyce

 - Janine Ratcliffe

- Katy Greenwood

Food Photographers
- David Munns

- Sam Stowell
- Gareth Morgans
- Philip Webb

- Ant Duncan

Stylists
- Rebecca Newport

Food Stylist Agency
 

CONTEMPORARY FOOD PHOTOGRAPHY

Duncan Loughrey - contemporary food photographer. His style is simple, graphic and uncomplicated. Worked with a number of clients, such as Argos, Screwfix, Beefeater Grill, Premier Inn, etc. 

 

 Here are a couple of examples of his work:

 

 

 

 

I like these images because they are artistic and show thought about composition. There is a lot of use of colour, making the food come to the viewer's attention. However I am not too sure whether I like the plain white background, this is because it doesn't show the viewer when they could make these dishes because the images haven't been put in context.

 

 

 

Commercial food photography

Michael Kay - famous and well known food photographer in the UK. Works with many food production companies and main supermarkets in the UK and internationally. 

Annabelle Breakey - commercial food photographer. Clients include: Starbucks, Mcdonalds, Burger King, etc.

Photography timeline

http://inventors.about.com/od/pstartinventions/a/Photography.htm

5th-4th Centuries B.C.Chinese and Greek philosophers describe the basic principles of optics and the camera.

1664-1666
Isaac Newton discovers that white light is composed of different colors.

1727
Johann Heinrich Schulze discovered that silver nitrate darkened upon exposure to light.

1794
First Panorama opens, the forerunner of the movie house invented by Robert Barker.

1814
Joseph Niepce achieves first photographic image with camera obscura - however, the image required eight hours of light exposure and later faded.

1837
Louis Daguerre's first daguerreotype - the first image that was fixed and did not fade and needed under thirty minutes of light exposure.

1840
First American patent issued in photography to Alexander Wolcott for his camera.

1841
William Henry Talbot patents the Calotype process - the first negative-positive process making possible the first multiple copies.

1843
First advertisement with a photograph made in Philadelphia.

1851
Frederick Scott Archer invented the Collodion process - images required only two or three seconds of light exposure.

1859
Panoramic camera patented - the Sutton.

1861
Oliver Wendell Holmes invents stereoscope viewer.

1865
Photographs and photographic negatives are added to protected works under copyright.

1871
Richard Leach Maddox invented the gelatin dry plate silver bromide process - negatives no longer had to be developed immediately.

1880
Eastman Dry Plate Company founded.

1884
George Eastman invents flexible, paper-based photographic film.

1888
Eastman patents Kodak roll-film camera.

1898
Reverend Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film.

1900
First mass-marketed camera—the Brownie.

1913/1914
First 35mm still camera developed.

1927
General Electric invents the modern flash bulb.

1932
First light meter with photoelectric cell introduced.

1935
Eastman Kodak markets Kodachrome film.

1941
Eastman Kodak introduces Kodacolor negative film.

1942
Chester Carlson receives patent for electric photography (xerography).

1948
Edwin Land markets the Polaroid camera.

1954
Eastman Kodak introduces high speed Tri-X film.

1960
EG&G develops extreme depth underwater camera for U.S. Navy.

1963
Polaroid introduces instant color film.

1968
Photograph of the Earth from the moon.

1973
Polaroid introduces one-step instant photography with the SX-70 camera.

1977
George Eastman and Edwin Land inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.

1978
Konica introduces first point-and-shoot, autofocus camera.

1980
Sony demonstrates first consumer camcorder.

1984
Canon demonstrates first digital electronic still camera.

1985
Pixar introduces digital imaging processor.

1990
Eastman Kodak announces Photo CD as a digital image storage medium.