Second Year, Bethany-Rose Yates, photographs and reinvents recipes from the cookbook ‘The Book of Household Management’ by Mrs Isabella Beetona, first published in 1861, for the Zine brief.
17th December 2019
These photographs are all of recipes from ‘The Book of Household Management’ by Mrs Isabella Beeton. The book was first published in 1861 so unlike cookbooks today, there was no photographs due to photography being in its infancy.
For my zine my idea was to bring these recipes to life by baking them, and photographing them in a style that you would find in cookbooks that are published today. However, I wanted the aesthetic of my photos to reflect the age of the recipes.
I did a lot of research into examples of editorial food photography to inspire my images, such as through the styling and lighting.