CITY OF BROKEN DOLLS

by Romain Slocombe

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.

Genres: Photography, Nonfiction

100 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 1997

Reviews

[Dana Jerman]

Loved Kern’s intro. Might have been more compelling with at least one or two color panels thrown in. Pretty but not expressly interesting considering the subject matter.

[Stekko]

Weird but somehow good