{"product_id":"body-9780500296561","title":"Body","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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, Sølve Sundsbø and Daniel Sannwald - Body: The Photobook explores what our imaging of the human form, and the ways in which those images h\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A landmark survey' - The i newspaper\u003cbr\u003e'Drawing on myriad genres and techniques – portraits, nudes, fashion spreads, medical micrographs – Nathalie Herschdorfer approaches the body as a nebulous and dynamic organism, a site for self-invention, a source of self-loathing, and an arena for personal myth and public scrutiny … the book contains a number of contemporary masterpieces ' - New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e'Visually stimulating' - Aesthetica\u003cbr\u003e'Invite[s] the viewer to question how and why the body is represented in photography, and to consider the vast impact that photographic images have on our understanding of the subject itself' - Elephant\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e  1. Physique\u003cbr\u003e  2. Alter Ego \u003cbr\u003e  3. Essay\u003cbr\u003e   4. Constructions \u003cbr\u003e  5. Mutations\u003cbr\u003e   6. Celebration\u003cbr\u003e  7. Essay\u003cbr\u003e  8. Flesh\u003cbr\u003e  9. Love","brand":"Thames \u0026 Hudson Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48864795918679,"sku":"9780500296561","price":21.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780500296561.jpg?v=1722273160","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/body-9780500296561","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}