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A New Kind of Beauty

By Phillip Toledano

A New Kind of Beauty Medicine

A New Kind of Beauty

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This is a book of portraits of people who have re-created themselves through plastic surgery. Phillip Toledano believes that we are at the vanguard of a period of human-induced evolution. A turning point in history where we are beginning to define not only our own concept of beauty, but of physicality itself. ¿ Beauty has always been a currency, and now that we finally have the technological means to mint our own, what choices do we make? ¿ Is beauty informed by contemporary culture? By history? Or is it defined by the surgeon¿s hand? ¿ When we re-make ourselves, are we revealing our true character, or are we stripping away our very identity? ¿But the impact of these faces and the bodies is jarring, even alienating. The sitters¿ motivations for these enormous changes are undoubtedly personal and deeply felt, but the enormity of that transgressive action challenges us as the viewer to sort out our own ideas about beauty and gender.¿ ¿W.M. Hunt Phillip Toledano lives and works in New York. Phillip¿s work is socio-political, and varies in medium, from photography, to installation. Toledano has three monographs published on his artistic practice, with the most recent, Days With My Father, being received to critical acclaim. His work has appeared in Vanity Fair, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Harpers, Esquire, GQ, Wallpaper, The London Times, The Independent, Le Monde, and Interview magazine, amongst others. W.M. Hunt is a New York-based collector, curator, consultant and overall champion of photography. The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the W.M. Hunt Collection was published by Aperture in the US, and Thames & Hudson in the UK, in October 2011.
Product details
Number of Pages:
72
Release Date:
2012-04-10
Publication Date:
2012-04-30
Publisher:
Dewi Lewis Publishing
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1907893105
ISBN13:
9781907893100
Weight:
1104 g
Height:
291 cm
Width:
383 cm
Thickness:
14 cm
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