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By Frank Kunert, Hatje Kantz, £17.88, 72 pages, hardback, ISBN 978-3775743761 Photographing miniature models has a rich history. This specialist endeavour – one requiring limitless imagination, ample time and steady-handed craftmost notably in figures such as Michael Paul Smith, whose acclaimed images bring to life dreamy and nostalgic 1950s Americana. Joining Smith in the pantheon of miniature-model photographers is German-born Frank Kunert, whose detailed and painstaking images create scenes that straddle the border between the uncanny and comfortably familiar. Each of Kunert's scenes is shot on a large-format film camera, which only serves to heighten the realism of his scenes. This lovely book acts as a kind of greatest hits compilation: one that brings together his previous works to form a perfect introduction to the artist.
