Singular beauty
By: Cara Phillips
Contributors: Jones, Meredith (Meredith Rachael), 1965-
Publisher: Fw: Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: [S.l.]
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789490119164
Subjects: Artistic Photography; Surgical clinics; Pictorial works; Medical instruments and apparatus; Plastic Surgery
Description: Beauty stalks us with a condescending eye. From television screens to magazines, shop windows to billboards, there is hardly a face or figure that hasn't been trimmed, polished, and reinvented to beleaguer us with an increasingly unattainable paradigm of physical beauty. In 'Singular Beauty', Cara Phillips explores the reassuring environments and ominous implements of cosmetic surgery. The publication provides a voyeuristic view into the pristine temples of physical transformation while offering an insightful critique of our culture of narcissism.
Notes: Japanese binding.

Essay "Architectures of soft-control: Cara Phillips' heterotopic images of absence and transformation" by Meredith Jones.