Practical Photography

I love pop-up books especially pulp-fiction covers, Thomas Allen has taken an X-acto knife to the pages of vintage books and then manipulated the images. Suddenly these two-dimensional characters spring to life in his photos as he plays arund with lighting and focus. It is for this reason I have chosen Thomas Allen as this weeks Photographer of the week.

After graduating from the University of Minneapolis in 1996 with a BA(Hons) in fine art Thomas Allen has exhibited all over the US and had his work Published in Harpers, and New York Magazine to name a few. I enjoy his work as it is fun and unique, this is a great example of how you can use photography to tell a story even using an innanimate object.

I love the use of 50’s images and illustrations these have so much character it just makes the photographs nore fun and amusing as you can imagine kitch captions from posters of that era that would accompany them.