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Photo Essay: Body
Posted on 19 Apr 2019The body remains a battleground. Politicised, conceptualised and increasingly shared, our often-paradoxical relationship with our bodies is nothing new, but finds itself heightened in the digital era. 'Body' explores how photography reflects our relationship to the human form. Take a look at some of the images from the book.
Ren Hang, Untitled 22. Photograph © 2012 Ren Hang. Courtesy Gao Guilan and Blindspot Gallery
Alix Marie, Ice Burn. Photograph © 2017 Alix Marie
Juul Kraijer, Untitled (L.P. #2). Photograph © 2014-15 Juul Kraijer
Viviane Sassen, Marte #02, from the series ‘UMBRA’. Photograph © 2014 Viviane Sassen. Courtesy Stevenson, Cape Town/Johannesburg
Henry Leutwyler, Megan LeCrone, soloist, New York City Ballet. Photograph © 2011 Henry Leutwyler
Maisie Cousins, Grass Bum. Photograph © 2015 Maisie Cousins
Alain Chédotal and Morgane Belle, An eight-week foetus, with peripheral nerves marked in green; the head is about 9 mm. Photograph © 2017 Institut de la Vision/Fondation Voir et Entendre
Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Mirror Study for Joe (_2010980). Photograph © 2017 Courtesy the artist, DOCUMENT Gallery, Team Gallery, and Yancey Richardson Gallery
Daniel Sannwald, Pop magazine, Fall/Winter. Photograph © 2012 Daniel Sannwald
Jeanne Tullen, Self-Portrait with Device, from the series ‘Womb’. Photograph © 2014 ECAL/Jeanne Tullen
Body: The Photobook features over 360 photographs ranging from art to fashion, from science to selfies. It includes work by Bettina Rheims, Lauren Greenfield, Wolfgang Tillmans, Daido Moriyama and Daniel Sannwald, among others.