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City of the Broken Dolls (Velvet Series) (Paperback)

by Romain Slocombe (Author)
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  • Paperback: 128 pages
  • Publisher: Creation Books (1 April 1996)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 187159281X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1871592818
  • Product Dimensions: 27.8 x 21 x 1.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 884,005 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Tokyo metropolis. Both in hospital rooms and on the neon streets, beautiful young Japanese girls are photographed in plastercasts and bandages, victims of unknown traumas. These are the "broken dolls" of Romain Slocombe's Tokyo, a city seething with undercurrents of violent fantasy, fetishism and bondage. City of the Broken Dolls is a provocative photographic document of the girls whose bodies bear mute witness to Tokyo's futuristic, erotic interface of sex and technology.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Japanese Sculpture!, 7 Nov 2001
By Mr. T. J. Bacon "tbaconx" (London UK) - See all my reviews
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This is fetish photography. However, its not in the style of the excellent 'Generation Fetish,' but rather different. It presents bondage images of female Japanese women injured (in some cases from real events such as Motorcycle acidents - others are studio recreations). The idea of bondage comes from the medical bonds that have been placed upon the subjects - Should situations that are intended to heal become a sexual thing? The bandages and casts, that in the black and white photography vividly stand out as symbolic white bonds - allow one to explore where the boundries of fetish excess lie. None of the imagery is gratuitous but does raise the question of guilt and feminists may argue that that it is the optiomy of the 'male gaze.' Eitherway the product confronts the audience and questions the moral boundry of sexual arrousal - Whether you enjoy it or not this is fantastic!
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4.0 out of 5 stars Superb photography; is this beuaty or is it much darker?, 24 Nov 1999
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Romain Slocombe's book of Japanese women modelling as accident and trauma victims comes across as both beautiful and disturbing. Often clad in uniforms or underwear, the sexual tension is obvious yet it also makes you question just what makes these images so appealing. I for one consider this sort of photographic work to be about the best a photographer can offer - how much photography in todays world has such power to make you reassess your most basic assumptions of right/wrong and has the ability to arouse yourself maybe against your will? For those of you interested in some of the finest photography of beautiful Japanese women then this book is a must-buy.
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