Lost Dolls, the Hidden‎ Lives of Toys

Lost Dolls, the Hidden Lives of Toys. This book of quirky and haunting photographs of dolls contains 280 full page color images, foreward by photographer and author Randall Whitehead, and 14 strange and wonderful inner dialogs with Lost Dolls. It's a perfect coffee table tour, suitable for all ages, and makes a unique and entertaining holiday gift. In this strange and poignant collection, photographer and internationally renowned lighting designer Randall Whitehead takes us on a journey into a world populated by a bewildering variety of small abandoned souls - dolls found during weekend rambles in flea markets, yard sales, bazaars, and shops in the United States, Europe, and South America. Each of the images tells a unique story that plays on our unconscious associations in often unsettling ways. In the dolls faces and the random juxtapositions of their environment we read the full gamut of human emotions and behavior: yearning, broken dreams, terror, joy, friendship, cruelty, oppression, stereotyping, affection, adoration, triumph, hunger, vanity, and curiosity. Following the tradition of Henri Cartier-Bresson, this is true found art - every shot was taken as Randall found it, without repositioning or staging. This makes the context of the shot as interesting as the subject, and makes us wonder.