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The earliest toy photo I’ve found so far

Bombardment of Matanzas, Edward H. Amet, 1898

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Category: The History of Toy Photography

The War Films Made with Toys
June 3, 2020 6 Comments by Tourmaline . The History of Toy Photography

The War Films Made with Toys

“The lesson here, surely, is not that the camera can, and often does, lie, but that it has lied ever […]

My Toy Photos that Didn’t Fool the World
May 30, 2020 4 Comments by Tourmaline . New Photography

My Toy Photos that Didn’t Fool the World

“Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the […]

The Toy Photo that Fooled the World for 60 Years
May 27, 2020 4 Comments by Tourmaline . The History of Toy Photography

The Toy Photo that Fooled the World for 60 Years

The Surgeon’s Photograph “I realised, for the first time, with complete assurance, the picture was not a fake and that […]

Toy Photos of War that Fooled the World for 50 Years
May 24, 2020 4 Comments by Tourmaline . The History of Toy Photography

Toy Photos of War that Fooled the World for 50 Years

“The most extraordinary photographs ever taken of air flights in war.” -The Illustrated London News Wesley David Archer was an […]

Vogue and Toy Photography
May 23, 2020 6 Comments by Tourmaline . The History of Toy Photography

Vogue and Toy Photography

Vogue is a popular fashion magazine. They’ve been around since 1892 and are still going strong. And through them we […]

The Staged Photos that Fooled Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and the World, for Nearly 70 years
May 18, 2020 7 Comments by Tourmaline . The History of Toy Photography

The Staged Photos that Fooled Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and the World, for Nearly 70 years

“The series of incidents set forth in this little volume represent either the most elaborate and ingenious hoax ever played […]

Surrealist Figure Photographers of the Mid 1900s Horst P. Horst, Classical still life, 1937
May 15, 2020 9 Comments by Tourmaline . The History of Toy Photography

Surrealist Figure Photographers of the Mid 1900s

In trying to find the earliest toy photograph, I came accross the amazing work of these two. Their work can’t […]

My Ongoing Search for the Earliest Toy Photograph
May 14, 2020 8 Comments by Tourmaline . The History of Toy Photography

My Ongoing Search for the Earliest Toy Photograph

The definition of a toy photograph has to be slightly amended when discussing the onset of photography. Action figures didn’t […]

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