Photographers who at least dabbled in photographs of toys, miniatures, figurines and the like, a timeline.
Click the names to learn more.
Links and Photographer listing will be updated as I find more to add.
[Last Updated December 27, 2020]
1898 Albert Smith & James Stuart Blackton

1898 Edward H. Amet

1912 Adolph de Meyer
More on him also here and here.

1917 Elsie Wright & Francis Griffiths

1925 Edward Weston

1926 László Moholy-Nagy

1933 Wesley David Archer

1934 Hans Bellmer

1934 Duke Wetherell

1936 Herbert Bayer

1937 Herbert List

1937 Horst P. Horst

1938 Emiel von Maerkerken

1939 Guiseppe Cavalli

1945 Vilem Reichmann

1947 Milos Korecek
(more info will post, and be linked here, soon)

1955 Peter Stauda
(more info will post, and be linked here, soon)

1957 Dare Wright

1972 David Levinthal

1976 Laurie Simmons

1978 Ellen Brooks

1986 Arthur Tress


Very instructive timeline, Jennifer – thanks for sharing. I wasn’t aware Moholy-Nagy worked with dolls (I would have thought that photo was Hans Bellmer’s, too). And I also like Levinthal a lot – you chose a great picture here, too.
Thank you so much! Gonna do a post on Maholy-Nagy soon. He didn’t do a lot of work with toys based on my current knowledge, but I’ll accept any dabbling :)
I have always been a fan of Moholy-Nagy, his vision always atracted me. I do not know many of the others you mention, I’ll make a research. it’s always an interesting theme, thanks for the suggestions.
I’m looking forward to continuing my research on Maholy-Nagy and getting a post up soon! Enjoy you’re research. They’re all very interesting in my book.