David Wins! David Wins!

Well, actually, his name is Tom... but he did defeat a Goliath, after all.

Artist wins battle over nude Barbie
By Catherine Elsworth

An artist who photographed Barbie dolls in sexually suggestive poses has won a five-year legal battle with Mattel, the toy's makers, after a judge dismissed its attempts to stop him as "groundless and unreasonable" and ordered the company to pay his £1 million legal fees.

Tom Forsythe, 46, from Kanab, Utah, produced a series of 78 images of the doll in 1998, entitled Food Chain Barbie, in sexual poses in or around household objects, to illustrate "Barbie's power as a beauty myth". The pictures, such as Blender Buddies in which two of the dolls are posed naked in a liquidiser and Stir Fry Barbie, where a supine doll performs high kicks in a wok, were exhibited in Utah, Kansas City, New Mexico, Texas and New York.

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