Body

The Photobook

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The 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 have been used and shared, might reflect of our relationship to the body. Supporting the broad range of photography is an essay by the psychologist Professor David Sander, who discusses the neurological representation of our own bodies.

Extent: 432 pp
Format: Paperback
Illustrations: 394
Publication date: 2022-01-13
Size: 21.0 x 14.7 cm
ISBN: 9780500296561
Introduction
1. Physique
2. Alter Ego
3. Essay
4. Constructions
5. Mutations
6. Celebration
7. Essay
8. Flesh
9. Love

Press Reviews

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

A landmark survey
The i newspaper

Visually stimulating
Aesthetica

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

About the Author

Nathalie Herschdorfer is a curator and art historian specializing in the history of photography. She is the Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Le Locle, Switzerland. Among her other books are Afterwards, The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Photography and Coming into Fashion, all published by Thames & Hudson.

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