Kane's distinctly unglamorous post-Dolls life and the reunion are at the centre of the film documentary New York Doll (2005).
Billy's death was, in a certain sense, the end of the first phase of the Dolls' life as a band.
"I try to give my dolls life, not just in the sense of technical perfection, but in that tender look of innocence that children have," she said.
"Like the doll's life span," Richard says, "this company has its own.
Accompanying each prints are vignettes by Maguire's husband that serve as snapshots into Doll's life just as effectively as do Maguire's photos.
To create her latest series, the artist Laurie Simmons ordered a high-end Japanese love doll — a life-sized, anatomically correct synthetic female, designed for use as an inanimate sex partner.
With meticulous direction that seems to bring the film's little dolls to life, he tells the story of his parents' death and recounts the dehumanizing horrors that he and other survivors endured.
He took me to an auction of Jewish religious memorabilia and showed me round some of Vienna's many unusual museums, each time startling me by his familiarity with porcelain dolls, the life of the murderer Hugo Schenf, scouting, the history of poison or the construction of wind-up automata.
On YouTube young women are using the age-old technique of stop motion animation to bring their dolls to life.
A life-size doll required a life-size set," says Ms Simmons, gesturing to the house.Mid-career is often characterised by the doldrums, but Mr Dunham and Ms Simmons are both experiencing renewed interest in their work.
