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The Body Photographs of the Human Form Paperback - 1994

by William Ewing


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The sensual curve of the shoulder, the disturbing line of a scar, the magnetic pull of a lashed eye -- since the birth of photography, images of the human body have attracted, disturbed, fascinated, and obsessed us. The body has been scrutinized by medical and anatomical photographers; it has been celebrated by photographers of sport and dance; it has inspired a long tradition of photographing the nude; and it has been depicted in phantasmagoric terms. In this rich, involving archive of over 360 duotone and color images culled from worldwide collections, renowned photo curator William A. Ewing has compiled the most comprehensive and arresting visual survey ever published of the human form. From nineteenth-century erotica to the politicized images of the 1990s, The Body offers an exciting, elegantly packaged, provocative record of the camera's infatuation with the human figure.

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Photographic fragmentation of the human body, at least in terms of a bonafide aesthetic practice, is essentially a twentieth-century phenomenon.

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  • Title The Body Photographs of the Human Form
  • Author William Ewing
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Chronicle Books, San Francisco
  • Date October 1, 1994
  • ISBN 9780811807623

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William A. Ewing is a wellknown writer on the art of photography and an independent curator whose exhibitions have been shown at the Museum of Modern Art and the International Center of Photography in New York, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, and many other museums and galleries. He lives in New York City.
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