ONE OF A KIND OOAK BARRY STURGILL CLASSIC VINTAGE BARBIE SMOKING A CIGARETTE ART

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ONE OF A KIND OOAK BARRY STURGILL CLASSIC VINTAGE BARBIE SMOKING A CIGARETTE ART:
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ONE OF A KIND OOAK BARRY STURGILL CLASSIC VINTAGE BARBIE SMOKING A CIGARETTE ART. (COPYRIGHT KEKOA\'S KOLLECTIONS, ANY REPRODUCTIONS OF THIS ARTWORK ISPROHIBITED)
WOW, THIS IS TRUELY AN AMAZING PIECE OF ART DONE BY RENOWNED BARBIE PHOTOGRAPHER, BARRY STURGILL. BARRY RARELY DOES ART, BUT HE DID THIS PIECE BACK IN 1991 FOR HIS GOOD FRIEND AND BARBIE COLLECTOR, GLEN OFFIELD. GLEN PASSED AWAY IN 1994 AND HIS FAMILY INHERITED HIS VAST BARBIE COLLECTION. I WAS FORTUNATE TO MEET TWO OF GLEN\'S SISTERS LAST YEAR AND BOUGHT A LARGE PART OF HIS COLLECTION. I AM NOW SELLING TWO OOAK PIECES FROM GLEN\'S COLLECTION THAT I HAD BEEN HOLDING ON TO BECAUSE I LIKE THEM SO MUCH. THE OTHER OOAK PIECE I HAVE FOR SALE IS A CAROL SPENCER HOLIDAY BARBIE THAT WAS FEATURED IN BARBIE BAZAAR NOV/DEC 1994, PLEASE TAKE A LOOK AT IT AS WELL:)...ITEM #200981181320THIS BARRY STRUGILL ART IS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION AND LOOKS TO HAVE BEEN DONE BY COLORED PENCILS OR MAYBE EVEN CRAYONS IN SOME PARTS. IT MEASURES APPROX. 20\"X16\" AND FRAMED MEASURES APPOX. 30\"X24\". THERE LOOKS TO BE MINOR WATER/MOISTURE DAMAGE WHERE THE FRAME AND MATTING MEET ON THE BOTTOM LEFT, BUT IT DOES NOT APPEAR TO HAVE AFFECTED THE ART AT ALL. THIS IS TRUELY A UNIQUE, ONE OF A KIND (OOAK) PIECE OF ART THAT IS A MUST FOR ANY SERIOUS BARBIE COLLECTOR!!!

ABOUT BARRY STURGILL (FROM 2006 NEWS REPORT...BARRY LIVES IN SEATTLE, WASH. NOW)

Barry Sturgill is a fifty-something Baby Boomer and professional photographer living in Palm Springs, California, where he shoots portraits, vintage architecture and food photos, plus Barbie and her fellow fashion dolls for various publications. Barry began his \"professional relationship\" with vintage (pre-1970) Barbie in the mid-80s, and has since become one of the foremost doll and toy photographers in the world.

\"I started using the dolls as models when I was in photography school, \" he explains. \"And I found that most people really reacted to the photos, in a way that was completely amazing.\"

Over the years, his work has appeared in magazines such as Barbie Bazaar, Haute Doll and Elle, newspaper articles, art gallery shows, collector reference publications, catalogs, coffee table books like Craig Yoe\'s The Art of Barbie, videos, websites and even a wry documentary film by journalist Susan Stern entitled Barbie Nation.

Often Barry likes to utilize traditional \"Hollywood Glamour\" lighting techniques, meticulously posing his \"models\" in tiny, hand-built sets to achieve his own version of classic fashion photography in miniature. He\'s been dubbed The Richard Avedon of Barbie Photography.

\"I really try to make the dolls appear as glamorous and lifelike as possible, without being creepy.\" he says.

In addition to photography, he\'s also written over a hundred magazine articles on vintage Barbie and her pals, their wardrobes and related ephemera over the past twenty years, qualifying him as a world-renowned authority on the doll as well.

But when it comes to the doll, Barry likes to keep everything fun, and his work always has a light-hearted, tongue-in-cheek slant. \"Barbie may be the best-selling doll ever,\" he says. \"And some vintage dolls are now worth really BIG bucks, but after all, it\'s still a toy.\"

What does he think of those who blame Barbie for ingraining rampant consumerism and negative body image issues on the world\'s youth? Mr. Sturgill: \"Get a grip. It\'s a DOLL, not a way of life. Do you think your three-year-old\'s going to be mentally scarred because she doesn\'t look like a Cabbage Patch Kid? I don\'t think so. But on a serious note, I do very strongly believe that Barbie very accurately mirrors American Culture, which does a pretty nifty job of drumming materialism and \'ideal body\' garbage into kids, and ADULTS by the way, all by itself. So Barbie\'s critics are merely condemning the byproduct instead of the actual cause.\"

Is there anything Barry himself doesn\'t like about Barbie? \"She can\'t stand up by herself, and she\'s forever losing her shoes.\"

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