[MichiganMat]

Originally Posted by masraum

I was thinking, "it doesn't get much weirder than that."

This may be a joke of some sort, but I suspect that there are some odd folks somewhere wanking like mad to this photo or maybe a whole series of them.

Charlie White photographs vulnerability.

Using a humanoid puppet he calls “complete fragility manifest in a body,” White presents human frailty through a fictional character, much as a novelist might.

As White tells Jacki Lyden for Weekend All Things Considered, his puppet, called Joshua, helps him to explore the themes of male self-image and self-loathing. White places Joshua in a series of vulnerable situations — at a cocktail party or a lover’s house — and photographs the scene.

http://www.npr.org/programs/watc/features/2002/june/white/

other works:

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.02/white.html