Archive for the ‘Dolls’ Category

Wednesday, October 21st, 2015

left: photo I took in 2006
right: The Mindy Project season 3 poster

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Wednesday, February 4th, 2015

Sunday, December 21st, 2014

I made this headpiece for Blythe though

A photo posted by Thanos Samaràs (@thanos_samaras) on

Sunday, November 30th, 2014

oh don’t be ‪#‎sad‬

Saturday, November 29th, 2014

The first doll I ever bought, “Love” from Hasbro’s 1971 line of World of Love dolls. I found her at the Chelsea flea market in New York, in the late 90s when it was still an open air market. I had no idea who she was, she was just laying on the pavement, dirty and beaten up next to other toys and her beautiful, kind face spoke to me. I remember getting in a cab and holding her in my hand, thinking, “this is a person.” She came with me everywhere after that day, traveling all over the world, she tagged along for company. It was only years later that I wondered what her history was and went online with very little to go on. Then I got hooked on studying, researching, discovering, collecting, photographing dolls, which will be both my salvation and my downfall.

Wednesday, October 8th, 2014

Thursday, September 25th, 2014

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2014

Sunday, June 29th, 2014

Not a Philip Treacy

Tuesday, May 13th, 2014

http://www.donteverloveme.com/dollphotographs.html


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Sunday, September 29th, 2013

Weave Pope, blesses tresses.

Sunday, September 29th, 2013

The witch of Capri, bids the summer adieu.

Sunday, September 1st, 2013

I really did damn enjoy turning Jennifer Pugh into this, a few days ago for an editorial.
A very favorite model, she’s a great performer.

On set, sometimes I’ll create a separate and personal mind process going, along with my work there, to stay focused.
[another one had arrived in the mail that morning, so she came along]

Sunday, August 11th, 2013

Sometimes -not often- what appears to be a tacky, ethnic costume tourist souvenir figure, hides underneath the starched atrociousness, a doll that’s not only beautifully designed but has a surprising versatility in expression and character. Like this one from the late 50s. She’s around 10 inches tall with a far out, tightly strung, hard plastic, jointed body; gorgeous hand painted facial features and a super photogenic bone structure. Her hair is the typical brittle viscose/mohair treatment, glued and sewn to the head. Everything about her carries a hand made, hand crafted softness and vulnerability, typical of items of a time long gone.

Each one has a slightly different face and thus quite different expression, since they’re hand painted.

Sunday, August 4th, 2013

meanwhile in the studio, the inanities are pretty consistent.