ANONYMOUS, SEX DOLL POLAROIDS

“Just about any material or style is subject to folk sexual alteration. People use scissors and tape to alter magazine photographs so that the characters fit their fantasies. Kinetic wood carvings are redesigned into sexual circumstances. Potters throw vases shaped like penises, vulvas, and the sexual act. Handy workers modify power tools into fucking machines. There are knitted penis warmers, naughty gendered potholder sets, and funny aprons which, when lifted, reveal giant stuffed fabric cocks. Sexy examples of macramé, crochet, cross stitch, embroidery, and other home arts await their collectors.

Dolls, realistic human forms, lend themselves to sexual alterations. Probably as long as there have been dolls, there has been the clever little brother or sister who thought they would look better with realistic genitalia. Clay, woodwork, sewing, drilling, and painting – the materials and methods are limited only by the ingenuity and patience of the artist.

Alta-Glamour recently unearthed these anonymous Polaroid photographs. The photo sets feature commercially-available dolls with added genitalia. The maker has set up tableaus and made photographic series that tell stories of straight, gay, and group scenes. We have not definitively dated them, but they are probably from the 1970s.

The quality of some photographs is not very good. Some of them were originally out of focus, and the colors of others have faded. However, the exuberance of the maker shines through it still.” - Alta Glamour