Michael Paul Smith Photography

This led to creating a gallery of vintage photography from a fictional 1950s american town called elgin park.

Michael paul smith photography. Welcome to michael paul smith s elgin park. For the last 25 years he has spent some of his spare and much of his professional time making miniature model cars and photographing them. The town of elgin park isn t located in a state it is a state of mind within the town s creator and photographer michael paul smith who has faithfully recreated the mid century america of his. The american model maker and photographer builds these 1 24 scale replicas of scenes which he then photographs against natural backdrops to create the most perspective bending images imaginable.

A 1 24th scale recreation of everyday scenes from mid 20th century america ranging from the 1920s to the mid 1960s what started as an exercise in model making and photography became a dreamlike reconstruction of the town michael grew up in. These photos are from michael paul smith s model photography on flickr. 22 1950 in pittsburgh to roy and audrey smith. Michael paul smith was born on nov.

Model maker and photographer michael paul smith has expertly combined his two crafts to create a series of images that make his intricate model cars look like life sized vehicles on the road. What started out as an exercise in model building and photography ended up as a dream like reconstruction of the town i. He grew up north of that city in sewickley pa the town that became a model for his fictional one. Model maker collector and photographer michael paul smith is a master at recreating incredibly accurate outdoor scenes using his extensive die cast model car collection and forced perspective.