One of the suggestions I received from a Photo of the Day comment posted in response to the question ‘What would you like to see more of’ was to highlight more of the ‘behind-the scenes’ of the institution. So here is a shot of our photographic studio showing two of our curators working on a photographic shoot involving toys from the collection. We have photographed a range of objects in this studio of various sizes, the largest being this car.
Geoff remarks on this shoot “We were working on a series of playful toy scenes and this time we produced a range of studio shots involving tiny metal soldiers preparing for battle under a mocked-up ‘kitchen table’. As we recreated each scene we would reminisce about our own childhood experiences and invent scenarios, storylines and relationships within the scene.”
Photography by Geoff Friend
License: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.0
Great!
By the sound of Geoff Friend’s description of the shoot, this should have been a video of behind the scenes. It would be a youtube hit.
Good idea Bob
we will look into this!
I had some second thoughts about this idea. The mere act of observing and recording the behaviour may change it. People get self-conscious about their “play” behaviour, etcetera.
And why interfere with their private fun?
But if you have budding stars in the making …