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The definitive survey of contemporary photography of the human body.
The body remains a battleground. Politicized, conceptualized and increasingly shared, our often-paradoxical relationship with the human form is nothing new, but finds itself heightened in the digitised, virtualised era of the 'post-industrial' body. No longer a tool but a work-in-progress, our bodily expectations bound from fantasy to reality, beauty to tyranny, art to commerce and curiosity to obsession, leaving us dreaming of other bodies and alternate lives.
Surveying a range of over 360 photographic re-presentations from the worlds of art, fashion, scientific and vernacular photography - including the work of Nobuyoshi Araki, Bettina Rheims, Lauren Greenfield, Viviane Sassen, Cindy Sherman, Wolfgang Tillmans, Daido Moriyama, Sally Mann, Pieter Hugo and Juergen Teller, Solve Sundsbo and Daniel Sannwald - Body: The Photobook explores what our imaging of the human form, and the ways in which those images have been used and shared, might reflect of our relationship to the body. Supporting the broad range of photography is an essay by the psychologist Professor David Sander, who discusses the neurological representation of our own bodies. 82 Illustrations, black and white; 312 Illustrations, color
About the Author
Nathalie Herschdorfer is a curator and art historian specializing in the history of photography. She is the Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Le Locle, Switzerland. Among her other books are Afterwards, The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Photography and Coming into Fashion, all published by Thames & Hudson.
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- Contributor: Nathalie Herschdorfer
- Imprint: Thames & Hudson Ltd
- ISBN13: 9780500296561
- Number of Pages: 432
- Packaged Dimensions: 147x210mm
- Packaged Weight: 1000
- Format: Paperback
- Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
- Release Date: 2022-01-13
- Binding: Paperback / softback
- Biography: Nathalie Herschdorfer is a curator and art historian specializing in the history of photography. She is the Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Le Locle, Switzerland. Among her other books are Afterwards, The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Photography and Coming into Fashion, all published by Thames & Hudson.
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