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Matinee: 'Life in Miniature'
22 July 2023
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
So we're pleased to present the 510th in our series of Saturday matinees today: Life in Miniature.
This 4:39 video examines the intricate miniatures created by Kath Holden. As the liner notes say, her miniatures are quite different from the typical doll house miniatures.
She's more likely to make a miniature tripod than a miniature tea set.
That's because Holden's subject isn't Victorian. It's modern. She and her mother make ironing boards smaller than an emory board or vacuum-packed steaks smaller than a fingernail. The stuff you see around you every day.
"We're all copying real life," she says of the practitioners of her art. "If we don't do miniatures of what we do now," she explains her preference for the contemporary, "how will it be represented in the future?"
You might say as much of photographers and photography, we thought.
Which is why we were mesmerized by this particular representation of the world in miniature.