`They're Not Pets, Susan,' says a stern father who has just shot a bumblebee, its wings sparkling in the evening sunlight; a lone office worker, less than an inch high, looks out over the river in his lunch break, `Dreaming of Packing it all In'; and a tiny couple share a `Last Kiss' against the soft neon lights of the city at midnight.
Mixing sharp humour with a delicious edge of melancholy, Little People in the City brings together the collected photographs of Slinkachu, a street-artist who for several years has been leaving little hand-painted people in the bustling city to fend for themselves, waiting to be discovered. . .
`Oddly enough, even when you know they are just hand-painted figurines, you can't help but feel that their plights convey something of our own fears about being lost and vulnerable in a big, bad city.' The Times
Product details
- Hardback | 128 pages
- 146 x 203 x 17mm | 391g
- 14 May 2010
- Pan MacMillan
- BOXTREE LTD
- London, United Kingdom
- English
- Unabridged
- Unabridged edition
- w. col. photos.
- 0752226649
- 9780752226644
- 9,505
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