Tiny Tokyo: The Big City Made Mini
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Tiny Tokyo - Ben Thomas
TINY
TOKYO
Copyright © 2014 by Ben Thomas.
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data available under ISBN: 978-1-4521-1738-6.
ISBN: 978-1-4521-3028-6 (epub 2)
ISBN: 978-1-4521-3755-1 (epub 3)
Designed by Emily Dubin
Map by Lohnes + Wright
Chronicle Books LLC
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San Francisco, CA 94107
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FOR KATHERINE
& ASHER
INTRODUCTION
I’ve been making tilt-shift photographs for the past half-dozen years. Tilt-shift photography is a technique that transforms ordinary images into images that take on the appearance of a miniature or a diorama. The original intended use of a tilt-shift lens mostly rested with architectural photographers using the additional movement of the lens (tilting and shifting) to help correct perspective distortion when shooting an architectural subject.
The technique is used in a number of ways to produce vastly different results. Over the years, a number of photographers have experimented with a tilt-shift lens to produce a variety