The Puppet Show

by | Nov 30, 2009 | ART

This series from the award winning team Winkler + Noah Photography plays with the idea of our children as dolls. Having a child of my own makes this really disturbing.

This series from the award winning team Winkler + Noah Photography plays with the idea of our children as dolls. Having a child of my own makes this really disturbing.

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from Winkler + Noah Photography
THE PUPPET SHOW / Awards: Luerzers Archive 200 Best Photographers, American Photography NY, IPA Los Angeles, The Color Awards London, Campaign Photo Award London

How can we forget the scent of dolls? A smell of plastic mixed with vanilla, with an after-taster of Roberts talcum powder, that enchanted you at the first encounter. You felt you could eat them. Now, years later, you find the same faces here. They look at you with the same big eyes. They talk, laugh, dance and joke….like children. Because that’s what they are.

Children we ask too much of, to be perfect, like dolls. Children who have become sons and daughters of perfection, pretence and image, manipulated by the media and the social context and who are inevitably losing their naturalness.

R. Anthony Harris

R. Anthony Harris

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