Hans Bellmer was a German artist best known for his life-sized female dolls made in the mid 1930's. Bellmer's first doll was created using wood, plaster, metal, rods, nuts and bolts. the sculpture represented a young girl. The doll explored themes such as eroticism, sadism, and fetishism. Bellmer took a series of photographs of the doll in various poses and stages of construction, the photographs quickly became as important as the sculpture itself. Bellmer created a second doll sculpture and again photographed it in various stages of completion. This time the doll wore white socks and black patent leather shoes that are commonly associated with little girls. With his doll sculptures and photographs Bellmer distorted and subverted the idea of the child's toy into something of an erotic obsession.