http://jillianmcdonald.net/blog/2008/05/13/scientific-observer/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:31:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 http://jillianmcdonald.net/blog/2008/05/13/scientific-observer/#comment-312 Jillian Mcdonald Blog » Blog Archive » Say Something Meaningful Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:27:36 +0000 http://jillianmcdonald.net/blog/?p=68#comment-312 [...] Justine Cooper, whom I blogged about before, has a great piece called Havidol which is itself an ad campaign for a fictional drug using the [...] […] Justine Cooper, whom I blogged about before, has a great piece called Havidol which is itself an ad campaign for a fictional drug using the […]

]]> http://jillianmcdonald.net/blog/2008/05/13/scientific-observer/#comment-292 A.M. Richard Wed, 14 May 2008 02:56:06 +0000 http://jillianmcdonald.net/blog/?p=68#comment-292 The Cooper photographs using the medical mannequins as props are also reminescent of Hans Bellmer's desconstructed/reconstructed doll photographs from the 1930s/40s although used in a different context. Both are endebted to a surrealistic lineage and are effectively sensational. The medical doll faces are also eerily similar to Morton Bartlett's sculpted figures (another follower of Bellmer). Ms. Cooper adds a rich and multi-layered chapter to the subject of doll iconography. The Cooper photographs using the medical mannequins as props are also reminescent of Hans Bellmer’s desconstructed/reconstructed doll photographs from the 1930s/40s although used in a different context. Both are endebted to a surrealistic lineage and are effectively sensational. The medical doll faces are also eerily similar to Morton Bartlett’s sculpted figures (another follower of Bellmer). Ms. Cooper adds a rich and multi-layered chapter to the subject of doll iconography.

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