Polish artist Ilona Szwarc was immediately taken by American girls’ fascination with American Girl dolls
We don’t see or hear as much about American Girl dolls in Canada as Americans do south of the border, for obvious reasons. And yet somehow without necessarily even seeing any of the dolls up close, we know that they all come with elaborate back stories, have their own hospital (should your girl’s dolls lose an arm or something) and have a large collection of clothes and furniture you can outfit them with. Young Polish artist Ilona Szwarc has created a series of portraits of American girls with their American Girl dolls.
“When I first came to the US the phenomenon of the American Girl doll immediately caught my eye. Photographically it was a beautiful image — girls with their sculptural representatives, their twins, their avatars.”
Here are some of Szwarc’s portaits:
