My brother Bryce Attwell, who has died of cancer aged 75, pushed the creative boundaries of food photography in the late 1970s. The editorial world of magazines, especially Good Housekeeping and Woman’s Journal, together with the many cookery books that he worked on, provided him with a platform for real innovation. He brought, to what had been a rather static “reference” style of food photography, a new, sensual mood. Using 10 x 8 and 5 x 4 camera formats he was able to create depth and atmosphere, and give a real ambience to the food photograph.
Bryce developed a painterly style inspired by various art genres from Dutch still life through to modernist abstraction. Backgrounds to his pictures implied life beyond the camera frame: an unseen human presence lived in his photographs, from the crumpled napkin to the crumbs on the plate.
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