“[T]his is particularly gifted, authoritative, intelligent work. Borland’s pictures seem very knowing, compassionate; and too close, too familiar, to suggest common or mere curiosity.”

—Susan Sontag
from “Borland’s Babies”

Photographer Polly Borland compassionately explores the little understood world of infantilism, 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, perhaps 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 bottoms, and...do what babies do, sometimes attempting to recreate that lost attachment, and sometimes to get aroused.

Photography/Infantilism/Baby Theory
Hardcover, 10.5 x 9.75 inches, 112 pages, 80 four-color photographs
ISBN 1-57687-083-9, $50.00

About Polly Borland and Susan Sontag

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