Body : the photography book /
Herschdorfer, Nathalieauthor,photographer.
Garvie, Francisca, ǂd 1942- ǂe translator.
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.
"369 illustrations".
Featuring the work of more than 175 photographers including: Laia Abril ; Jun Ahn ; Nobuyoshi Araki ; Jacob Aue Sobol ; Roger Ballen ; Valérie Belin ; Jodi Bieber ; Lucas Blalock ; Koto Bolofo ; Elina Brotherus ; Elinor Carucci ; Maisie Cousins ; Gregory Crewdson ; Raphaël Dallaporta ; Siân Davey ; Corinne Day ; Erica Deeman ; Eamonn Doyle ; Julia Fullerton-Batten ; Adam Fuss ; Bruce Gilden ; Jim Goldberg ; Nan Goldin ; Lauren Greenfield ; Ren Hang ; Jamie Hawkesworth ; Bill Henson ; Todd Hido ; Pieter Hugo ; Nadav Kander ; Rinko Kawauchi ; Barbara Kruger ; Mona Kuhn ; Deana Lawson ; Jocelyn Lee ; David Lynch ; Ryan McGinley ; Erik Madigan Heck ; Sally Mann ; Jeff Mermelstein ; Arno Rafael Minkkinen ; Marilyn Minter ; Richard Misrach ; Daido Moriyama ; Richard Mosse ; Zanele Muholi ; Nicholas Nixon ; Erwin Olaf ; Catherine Opie ; Orlan ; Martin Parr ; Pierre et Gilles ; Bettina Rheims ; Herb Ritts ; Paolo Roversi ; Thomas Ruff ; Alessandra Sanguinetti ; Daniel Sannwald ; Viviane Sassen ; Collier Schorr ; Andres Serrano ; Cindy Sherman ; Alec Soth ; Thomas Struth ; Sølve Sundsbø ; Esther Teichmann ; Juergen Teller ; Ed Templeton ; Wolfgang Tillmans ; Oliviero Toscani ; Erwin Wurm ; Liu Zheng.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface / Nathalie Hershdorfer -- All the states of the body / Nathalie Hershdorfer -- Physique -- Alter ego -- Constructions -- Mutations -- Mind and body / David Sander -- Celebration -- Flesh -- Love.
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.
Photography of the nude
Portrait photography
Human body