Research Catalog

Title

Body : the photography book / Nathalie Herschdorfer.

Author

Herschdorfer, Nathalie

Publication

• New York, New York : Thames & Hudson, [2019]
• Slovenia : DZS-Grafik d.o.o., [2019]
• ©2019

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Details

Description

431 pages : 369 illustrations (color and black and white); 31 cm

Summary

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 representations 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 Photography Book 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 a foreword by a cultural critic, and an essay by the acclaimed psychologist Professor David Sander, PhD., discussing the neurological representation of our own bodies.

Subjects

• Pictorial works
• Porträtfotografie
• Körper > Motiv
• Fotografie
• Portrait photography
• Photography of the nude
• Human body > Pictorial works

Genre/Form

Pictorial works.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Preface / Nathalie Hershdorfer -- All the states of the body / Nathalie Hershdorfer -- Physique -- Alter ego -- Constructions -- Mutations -- Mind and body / David Sander -- Celebration -- Flesh -- Love.

ISBN

• 9780500021583
• 0500021589

OCLC

• on1083626243
• SCSB-9446824

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library