“Untitled (Shell hand)”
silver gelatin print
1934
Dora Maar
(1907-1997)
France

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Bellmer's obsession with dolls - his endless fabrication, reconstitution, and photographic presentation of them - was an effort to construct objects that would articulate his tortured desires in material form. The bizarre, robotic temptress in this negative print has an eerie electric aura. To love her, one would have to have, as the Surrealist poet Pierre Reverdy wrote, a "short circuit in the heart-system."

The Doll
Hans Bellmer
1934–35

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My father on the left, my uncle on the right from about 1933, so 91 years ago. Every home had a camera of some sort or another. At over 90 years old, I still have this photo.

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