Snail.


Doll.

A third series of Doll Parts photos is now available on Flickr. Click through for more.

If you liked the first batch, here are a few more dolls in distress. Just click on the picture above to check out the whole set. Once again, these dolls (and parts thereof) are from the collection of Jan Frost and Randall Ingalls. All photographs copyright 2008 by Ross E. Lockhart. Feel free to link to this post, but please don't reproduce these photographs without attribution or permission.

While we were visiting Jan and Randy's house a few nights ago, I discovered that Randy had the dolls out (he'd been working on a piece for "The Man Show," currently on display at The Mail Depot). As the story goes, the dolls were discovered in a box, in the desert, in pretty-much the states of decay seen here, many years ago. What follows are a number of pictures I took of the collection, spread out on the table, more-or-less unposed and undisturbed. More or less. Yeah, it's kind of like hanging out in Joel Peter Witkin's rumpus room, but some of you might enjoy them. So put on a record of kindertotenlieder, pour a glass of wine, sit back, and enjoy...



( More images behind the cut. Fair warning, some images may disturb you. )