Tag: invention of photography

Historic Miniature Photography of a Different Variety

Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre, Still Life, 1837

"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 →

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The History of the Still Life

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 →

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