Tim Mantoani Brings Home the Stories 'Behind Photographs'

For the first time, some of the large-size Polaroids are being publicly displayed.

Here’s just one example of what viewers have been savoring from San Diego-based photographer Tim Mantoani’s clever project “Behind Photographs.”

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Pictured above is Elliott Erwitt, holding “Felix, Gladys and Rover,” a famous photo he snapped in Central Park back in 1974. In the notes, he admits that he has been unable to keep track of where, from there, went the woman and her two dogs.

Mantoani, shooting fellow photographers with their most iconic or personal favorite pic, enhanced the nostalgic feel of his years-long side project by using giant 20-by-24-inch print-format Polaroid cameras.

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