Weird, Wonderful Renwal 1940s Yellow Jointed Dollhouse Girl frank mann or soon will be

or soon will be

is now well known as a photojournalist and activist

but I have not been able to find it in the The New Yorker's archive in order to date it--but surely what makes for demographic perfection has become more complex and conflicted since it was published

I feel like this photograph should give rise to a novel

but pages are generally clean and in overall good shape

Weird, Wonderful Renwal 1940s Yellow Jointed Dollhouse Girl frank mann or soon will beA weirdo for sure, which I must say I've become pretty obsessed with! She reminds me a bit of the strange Creative Playthings family puppets that came along a bit later, sharing with them an eerie, rather surreal character and an intensity that I think might make her haunt a child's dream. The way this one has aged amplifies all that makes her great I think, with this fantastic interplay of yellow against unpainted plastic on her face. From what I