Püppi Arrived. Love Dolls in the Eye of the Beholder – Photos, Interviews, Text Fragments

Authors

  • Monika Hanfland University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund

Keywords:

love dolls, real dolls, dolls as substitutes for partners, sexuality, conceptions of normality

Abstract

This contribution presents a sequence of photos, interview excerpts and text fragments on the subject of love dolls, which are part of a larger project (see Püppi ist da/Püppi Arrived: https://www.monikahanfland.de/pppi-arrived). The views and self-images of the users/owners as well as the attitudes and experiences of the manufacturers of Real Dolls are followed. The human-doll-relationships shown challenge the viewers to deal with questions of normality, everydayness and potentials in dealing with dolls as human substitutes.

Author Biography

  • Monika Hanfland, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund

    Born in 1992; BA in 2018 in Photography at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund; currently continuing the MA programme "Photographic Studies"; Monika Hanfland lives and works in Dortmund. The overall project "Püppi is here" can be accessed at: https://www.monikahanfland.de

Titel 2020 1.1

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Published

2020-10-20

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 1.1 (2020): dolls/puppets as artificial beings. Part 1.1

Section

Interview

License

Copyright (c) 2020 Monika Hanfland

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How to Cite

Püppi Arrived. Love Dolls in the Eye of the Beholder – Photos, Interviews, Text Fragments. just a bit of doll - a multidisciplinary journal for human-doll discourses, v. 3, n. 1.1, p. 107–118, 20 Oct.2020.