Small Scale Fabricated Photography, Toy Photography History, Art Creation Musings
How does context change the way we interpret a photograph of the body? From medical and crime-scene photography to fine art, erotic imagery, dolls, and abstraction, this post traces the shifting meanings we assign to bodies, and what happens when those categories begin to collapse.
Toy photography, in large part, has followed the same trends as photography as a whole and art of other mediums over the years. Here's the breakdown. Updated 7/7/2021 Early Photography Albert Smith and James Stuart Blackton, Raising Old Glory Over Morro Castle, 1898 Bombardment of Matanzas, Edward H. Amet, 1898 Death in the Air, Wesley... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
Today, August 2nd, is Doll Day and in realizing this I knew I had an interesting opportunity to talk about Hans Bellmer, an artist I recently came across while researching another post to come. Bellmer was a surrealist photographer in the 1930s. In his work he almost only photographed life-sized dolls he built beginning in... Continue Reading →