Excellent lunches on LIFE Bashny.Net

In an era of popular Instagram photos of food for a long time, we seem to have become something familiar and artless. In fact, this genre of photography is not only an interesting story, but also a huge arsenal of artistic features.
For a long time it was thought that the pictures of food do not require the author's special artistic skill. In many early pictures products are the way they might lie on a normal kitchen or dining room table.





The situation has changed 50 years ago. January 31, 1964 issue of LIFE magazine began the now famous among gourmets series "Great lunch", which completely changed the idea of ​​food photos.



"These festive meals, - wrote the editors of LIFE of the dishes that they were in the series - and yet easy to prepare. And since no celebration is not created entirely in the kitchen, in the texts - along with the recipes - offers advice on how to prepare in advance, efficient shopping, lay the table nicely. Each meal will be given a full menu ».



One of the most talented photographers who worked for the series "Great lunch", was John Dominis. His talent was multi-faceted. Dominis did photo essays from around the world. He photographed the Olympic Games, the war in Vietnam, Woodstock, wild animals in Africa and also made skillful photo essay about the iconic media persons of his time. And he was the one who largely changed the manner of photographing food, turning it into an art.



Dominici father was a chef and had a restaurant in Los Angeles. Photographer and he loved to cook and know how to look appetizing food and how to pass the palatability through the camera lens.



"We decided to shoot more close-ups that would make food so attractive that it wanted to eat, - later he wrote about John Dominis photos in" superb meals "- instead of the popular [while] the manner of decorating it with flowers and candles." < br />


But not only the food itself, but also dishes, which she was, the photos Dominis looked especially beautiful. Argentine meatloaf matambre photographed in Halved pot for frying, apparently, was taken out of the oven for a few moments before the shooting. The smoke that envelops the roll - not spicy vapor from food. This cigarette smoke, which enveloped matambre Dominis, "to make it look delicious».



But to what John Dominis tricks resorted to photograph pepper steak: "I photographed and pepper steak with a single exposure, - he said - and then I put a lot of pepper on a piece of glass and made a second exposure to the same film».

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