"The Babies", a brand new, hardcover, illustrated 144 page book about Adult Babies, is now available through DPF. The following is what the publisher says about this book.
Portrait-photographer-by-trade Polly Borland compassionately explores this surreal world, artfully framing the inner lives of adult babies alongside their outer manifestations. Many of these men, who function in society as truck drivers, accountants, and teachers, suffered as children and were left obsessed with the warmth and care experienced by other infants and toddlers. So they dress up in adult-sized baby clothes, powder their own bottoms, and...do what babies do, all in an attempt to recreate that lost attachment. And sometimes to get aroused.
Accompanying these (80 full color) Arbu-like photographs are interviews with the babies themselves. The book, expertly sequenced by famed editor Mark Holbron begins like the sweetest of lullabies, seducing us into a sense of lovely baby life...until about page 12.
Polly Borland, widely acclaimed for her vivid portraits and off-beat reportage, shoots regularly for numerous leading U.S. and UK publications. Her work has been widely exhibited, and she is a past winner of the prestigious John Kobel Photographic Portrait Award. She shot stills and "specials" for the films "Dogs in Space" directed by Richard Lowenstein, and "Ghosts of the Civil Dead" and "To Have and To Hold", both directed by John Hillcoat. A major exhibition of her portraits of famous Australians living abroad opened at the prestigious National Portrait Gallery, London, in June of 2000. Born in Australia, Borland now lives in London and travels quite frequently on assignment. She maintains several friendships with the people she documented on this project.
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