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Toygiants
This book contains photographs and portraits... of toys. Some are so expressive it’s even scary. |
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 What would Al Pacino think about this portrait? |
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At first glance, this may look like a practical toy inventory, but Toygiants is actually an art project carried out by two photographer brothers: Daniel and Geo Fuchs who, after seeing Selim Varol’s collection of vinyl action figures (he’s got more than 10 thousand), were inspired to carry out their project: making portraits and photographs of toys.
They began by making portraits of 3 plastic Superheroes: Batman, Superman and The Hulk. Upon close observation of these ever-popular characters, they noticed the idealism with which they’d been created. That was the origin of the Toygiants art project.
For over 3 years, the brothers took pictures of Varol’s collection, which includes all sorts of toys: superheroes, film heroes such as Scarface, politicians like George Bush, historical figures such as Hitler and Che Guevara, artists like Andy Warhol and another designer item, widely known as simply “toys”, which has become very popular in the past few years thanks to its presence in comic books and mangas.
The brothers made detailed portraits of the most expressive dolls, just take a look at the one of Tony Montana or of Barbie. They also took group photos organized by themes or by color schemes. They claim that, in those three years, they spent so much time with the action figures that some of them began to take on a life of their own.
Toygiants is a project that aims to highlight the enormous impact of vinyl action figures on society and the ability these toys have to blur the line between fiction and reality. The book has 216 pages, 180 full-color illustrations, 5 pop-out pages, and vinyl covers. It’s quite a treat for toy lovers.
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Toygiants
Daniel Geo Fuchs
Young Gallery
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