reading notes

The street art of Slinkachu
ISBN: 9780752226644

The tagline from Slinkachu’s blog may put it best: this is about “little handpainted people, left in London to fend for themselves”.

The book is a collection of photographs of these little people. They are models set up in urban locations, and the jarring quality of the images comes not just from the scale (they are miniature) but from recognizing the bits of everyday life in the scenes that are real and not real at the same time.

I did wish for a stronger layout: one page is a photograph of the little people as staged by Slinkachu, and on the opposing page the photo is taken from further back, revealing the setup and scale. While I did appreciate the reveal, would rather have seen the worlds created by the miniatures all together, with the trick exposed later on. There are thumbnails in the back with location and dates London 2006 – 2008, perhaps a larger version of the whole scene would have worked better there.

Still, it’s a charming collection of work — clever ideas, well done street art on small scale.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, January 12th, 2010 at 8:15 pm and is filed under art.