Photographer: Hans Bellmer (German) 1935 and 1949 hand-coloured.
Bellmer photographed his home-made dolls hundreds of times, he tinted some of the black and white photographs. His work, broadly, is an expression and rejection of fascism. It also entails what I call body-melding: changing what is largely perceived as a normal experience of the body and sexuality. He was interested inhermaphroditism and different forms a ‘disassembled’ body can take on. E.g. he took photographs of Unica Zurn’s thighs and tummy tied with ribbon making them almost unrecognizable.
Photo source: Lichtenstein, T., (2001), Behind Closed Doors, the Art of Hans Bellmer, University of California Press.
