Armed with an X-Acto knife and a point-and-shoot camera, Michael Paul Smith creates incredibly life-like scenes of midcentury America by photographing tiny model buildings in front of real cities and vistas. Curbed National takes a look at a recently released mini-doc on his background and craft, this way. [Curbed National]
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