Mammary madness for dumb blondes

America has long suffered from mammary madness. Hollywood cinema augmented the blonde Marliyn Monroe's image of tits and ass and little girl innocence to a new proportions. She became an icon and the meaning and symbolism associated with her image influenced female gender identity thereafter.

Here's an artist with an interesting take on Barbie -- the other lengendary dumb blonde that inhabits the world of little girls everywhere.
Chris Jordan - Photographic Arts


Barbie Dolls, 2008
60x80"
Depicts 32,000 Barbies, equal to the number of elective breast augmentation surgeries performed monthly in the US in 2006.


Zoomed

From the exhibit Running the Numbers
An American Self-Portrait
Chris Jordan