Small Wonders - Life Portrait in Miniature

by Tatsuya Tanaka

Overview

You can row a boat made of chili. You can enjoy an easy morning stroll among asparagus trees. You will be excited alongside the racetrack, which is actually the surface of a vinyl record.
In this miniature world life looks ordinary—yet from a different perspective.
Japanese photographer Tatsuya Tanaka started posting miniature pictures every day in in 2011, calling it "Miniature Calendar." Since then more than 2,000 images have been posted on his website, and he now has 950,000+ followers on Instagram and gets 170,000+ likes on Facebook.
In this book you can find more than 100 works created by utilizing everyday objects, tiny figures, and an immense amount of imagination. You will be amazed by the ideas found in the ordinary things around you that bring back the curiosity you used to have in childhood.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9784865050776
Publisher:	Nippan IPS
Publication date:	08/15/2017
Pages:	128
Sales rank:	262,446
Product dimensions:	8.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Born in Kumamoto, Kyusyu in 1981, Tanaka Tatsuya is a Japanese photographer. He started posting miniature images every day in 2011, calling it "Miniature Calendar." Since then, more than 4,000 images have been posted on his website, and he now has 2.5 million+ followers on Instagram.

Interviews

Have you ever thought that a bunch of broccoli or parsley would look like a forest?

I am sure everyone has had a similar experience.
This act of making objects resemble something else is often called “Mitate,” or “likening.”

It has been my lifework to capture this “Mitate” through the eyes of miniature people.

Since I was posting my work every day on my website and other SNS sites like a page-a-day calendar, I started to call it “MINIATURE CALENDAR.” Begun in April 2011, it now contains thousands of “Mitate.”

This collection is carefully selected and reconstructed from the huge archive of “MINIATURE CALENDAR.”

Let’s kneel down and see the world from below. You will surely find a lot of “Mitate” all around you!