This listing started as resources for an upcoming vlog I’m planning on why humans are intrigued by miniatures, and as a follow up, why some of those people are passionate about toy photography. I know there are some movies, etc. that feature miniatures of some kind, but use them as a narrative device, rather than saying something about them, if that makes sense at all, and therefore I’ve excluded those from this list.
While I’ve read and watched many of these, some are still on my to do list, so don’t consider this a list of recommendations just yet.
Fiction Books
- Sharp Objects, Gillian Flynn, 2006
- The Miniaturist, Jessie Burton, 2015
- The Indian in the Cupboard Series, 1980 – 1998
Non-Fiction Books
- Fabrications: Staged, Altered and Appropriated Photographs, Anne H. Hoy, 2005
- On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection, Susan Stewart, 1984
- The Poetics of Space, Gaston Bachelard, 1958
- The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll: The Search for Dare Wright, Jean Nathan, 2005
- Life of Toy Photographers, 2017
- Ten Frames per Second, Johnny Wu, 2016
- On Photography, Susan Sontag, 1973
Movies
- Hereditary, 2018
- Welcome to Marwen, 2018
- Tiny Furniture, 2010
- Gulliver’s Travels
- The Miniaturist, 2017
- Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, 1989
- The Indian in the Cupboard, 1995
Documentaries
- Marwencol, 2010
- Voyeur, 2017
- The Toys that Made Us, 2017 – 2018
- Of Dolls & Murder, 2012
TV Shows
- Sharp Objects, HBO, 2018
- CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, The Miniature Serial Killer, Seasons 7 – 9 (Episodes 701, 702, 707, 710, 711, 716, 720, 724, 801, 907), 2006 – 2008
- Friends, Season 3 Episode 20, The One with the Dollhouse, 1997
Articles
- Elements of Control: Miniatures in ‘Hereditary’ and ‘Marwencol’: Little in size, big in meaning., Fandor, 2018
- Death in Diorama
Videos
- Little things: The reasons why we love miniatures, The Daily Telegraph, 2018
- The Little Things in Life: A Film about Miniatures, Peter Nielson, 2014
Interviews
- An Interview with David Levinthal, The Father of Miniature Photography, Tourmaline ., 2012
- Questions and Answers, Lori Nix/Kathleen Gerber
- Laurie Simmons: Master of Puppets, Dirty Magazine
- Daily Mini Interview: Snails and Miniature Scales by Aleia Murawski and Samuel Copeland
Blog Posts/Other
- Photo-Illusions in the Digital Age, Walter Wick
- Category: Why?, Toy Photographers, 2014 – 2018
- Puppet Fashion Show from British Pathé TV 1960. via the research of @chicojefferson, Juxtapoz Magazine, 2018
- Scale Models, Michael Lobel on Laurie Simmons and Anne Collier, 2010
- Miniature Manifesto Part 1: Call Us Makers, Louise Krasniewicz, 2015
- Miniature Manifesto Part 2: Stop Quoting Susan Stewart, Louise Krasniewicz, 2015
- Miniature Manifesto Part 3: Down the Rabbit Hole, Louise Krasniewicz, 2016
Leave a comment below, if you know of something that should be added to this list.
-Tourmaline .