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City of the Broken Dolls

A Medical Art Diary, Tokyo 1993-96

by Romain Slocombe ยท 1997

ISBN: 187159281X 9781871592818

Category: Art / General

Page count: 128

Tokyo. 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 sexual violence and bondage. Not since J G Ballard's 'Crash' have the erotic possibilities of trauma been so vividly and disturbingly exposed. A startling photographic account of a city on the edge.