Small Scale Fabricated Photography, Toy Photography History, Art Creation Musings
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 →
I'm starting a list of all the toy photographers in the world. Or at least I'm trying to, with your help. Let's all collectively become a part of the history of toy photography, by sealing it on record. If you're a toy photographer, go to this link and full out your info. All of the... Continue Reading →
https://ia800300.us.archive.org/35/items/The_Mascot_Complete/mascot_512kb.mp4 "Starewicz had become a master animator by 1933, incorporating techniques never used before and rarely since (such as moving the puppets during the actual exposure to create blurring for fast movement). His use of rear-screen projection is also surprisingly effective. But more important than these technical details is the great humor of his writing... Continue Reading →
While toy photography is a genre all its own, toys and miniatures in an of themselves are iconographic objects. This has led photographers who don’t always or often use toys in their work, to occasionally pull from the iconography of these objects. László Moholy-Nagy Maholy-Nagy believed art could lead to social transformation. From painting, to... Continue Reading →
As we well know, toys are as old as time - A Timeline of the History of Miniatures: From Ritual and Religious Object to Plaything and CollectibleThe History and Psychology of Toys But toy photography, my research topic of choice, cuts out the human owners from the scene. Symbolic depictions of me are in all my work,... Continue Reading →
The Parisian Doll show, Liberal Arts Building, World's Columbian Exposition, Kilburn, B. W. (Benjamin West), 1894, https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017651050/ A toy photo, or photo of toys, you choose. But if it's a toy photograph, it's the earliest I've found so far. And if its simply a photo of toys, its still a pretty cool find. In quoting myself... Continue Reading →
"We desire to bring together all the most interesting facets offered by Daguerre's invention under the four rubrics of curiosity, usefulness for the arts, quickness of understanding and usefullness for the sciences." -Francois Arago, report before the Academy of Sciences, Paris, 1839 Toy Photography and the photography of toys are two very different things. Toy... Continue Reading →
The term 'still life' was coined in the Netherlands in the 17th century, but the practice itself dates back to ancient times. As a basis, a still life is "a piece that features an arrangement of inanimate objects as its subject" (My Modern Met). Meaning, for you toy photographers reading this, toy photography is a... Continue Reading →