Category: The History of Toy Photography

Historic Miniature Photography of a Different Variety

“We desire to bring together all the most interesting facets offered by Daguerre’s invention under the four rubrics of curiosity, […]

The term ‘still life’ was coined in the Netherlands in the 17th century, but the practice itself dates back to […]

Photographers who at least dabbled in photographs of toys, miniatures, figurines and the like, a timeline. Click the names to […]

Today, August 2nd, is Doll Day and in realizing this I knew I had an interesting opportunity to talk about […]

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

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

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

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