Toy-esque Photographers | Onset of Photography through the 1980s

Jennifer Nichole Wells, BFA

4 years ago

Albert Smith and James Stuart Blackton, Raising Old Glory Over Morro Castle, 1898

Photographers who at least dabbled in photographs of toys, miniatures, figurines and the like, a timeline.

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Links and Photographer listing will be updated as I find more to add.

[Last Updated December 27, 2020]

1898 Albert Smith & James Stuart Blackton

Albert Smith and James Stuart Blackton, Raising Old Glory Over Morro Castle, 1898

1898 Edward H. Amet

Bombardment of Matanzas, Edward H. Amet, 1898

1912 Adolph de Meyer

More on him also here and here.

The Nymphenburg Figure, Baron A. de Meyer, Photogravure, 1912

1917 Elsie Wright & Francis Griffiths

Cottingly Fairies, 1917

1925 Edward Weston

Edward Weston, 1925

1926 László Moholy-Nagy

Laszlo Maholy-Nagy, Dolls, 1926

1933 Wesley David Archer

Death in the Air, Wesley David Archer

1934 Hans Bellmer

Hans Bellmer

1934 Duke Wetherell

Loch Ness Monster, Robert Kenneth Wilson

1936 Herbert Bayer

Herbert Bayer, Still Life, 1936

1937 Herbert List

Herbert List, Knock Out, 1937

1937 Horst P. Horst

Horst P. Horst, Still Life Hoop, 1939, platinum palladium print

1938 Emiel von Maerkerken

Emiel von Maerkerken, Our Daily Bread, 1938

1939 Guiseppe Cavalli

Guiseppe Cavalli

1945 Vilem Reichmann

Vilem Reichmann, from Hounded City: On Dry Land, 1943

1947 Milos Korecek

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

Milos Korecek, Emigrant, 1947

1955 Peter Stauda

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Peter Stauda, Lying Doll, 1955

1957 Dare Wright

Dare Wright, Lona, A Fairy Tale, 1963

1972 David Levinthal

David Levinthal, American Beauties

1976 Laurie Simmons

Laurie Simmons, Early Color Interiors

1978 Ellen Brooks

Ellen Brooks, Tableaux

1986 Arthur Tress

Arthur Tress, Teapot Opera, 1980s

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