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)
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.