Minneapolis-based multi-crafter and artist Michelle Brusegaard created photos that make Barbie more human than her 11.5-inch height and infamous proportions suggest.
Michelle sees Barbie “more as discarded object than revered plaything.” Now that the Bratz have dethroned the once-reigning doll, the series seems to hint at a gal contemplating an unknown next stage of life. Each is just $15.
There are many shots of her clothes, store-bought and this homemade gingham
Admittedly not Barbie proper, this doll sofa suggests faded glamour-in-waiting
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Comments (11)
I love Barbie's. I believe that peach dress hanging from the line is from the Peaches N Cream Barbie. I loved that dress!!
I totally had that Peaches and Cream Barbie!
These are hilariously wonderful. Thanks for the post!
Peaches n Cream Barbie was my FIRST Barbie (of many). I saw that dress and it made me smile. Great post!
I was thinking the exact same - Peaches n Cream Barbie! ...great now I have the commercial stuck in my head.
I love that top photo! I'm guilty of still wearing Barbie logo clothes. I even made jewelry from Barbie's accessories to wear with my Barbie clothing.
Maybe I should start selling things like that :)
I bought the Peaches N Cream photo. I just had to! Brought WAY too many memories back not to!!
Um, this might be a stupid comment, but I don't really get the picture with all the Barbie legs and then (I'm assuming) Ken feet on the other side. What is it suggesting?
I did a much naughtier version of this for a college project, which was later published in the March 2008 issue of German Cosmo. Meh.
The pictures shot from behind her head and of the legs seems rather creepily fetishistic from my perspective. It reminds me of a very old John Cleese bit I saw in a book (in a sequence of photos) where he grows uncomfortably enamored of his child's doll and does something embarrassing and disturbing to the doll.
thanks to everyone for the comments! the "body shots" of the barbies were taken in 2005, when I was doing a series of paintings and photos that were sort of like choose your own adventure narratives. so the ken legs are just there create a dynamic situation in a still life, so it could be that ken's oppressive, if you' like, or it could just be that there was always only one ken doll in a sea of barbies and skippers....
There is always only one ken doll. It's a weird thing. I always wanted more, but never got any.
I hate Bratz. They are the, "let's teach our kids to be sluts" dolls.