A New Kind of Beauty
ISBN-13: 9781907893100
Contributor(s): Phillip Toledano
Subject: Photography & Photographs
Publisher Imprint: Dewi Lewis Publishing
Publication Date: 08-09-2011
Format: Hardback
Availability: In stock
£30.00
About the book
A fascinating collection of portraits of people who have re-created themselves through plastic surgery. Toledano believes that these people are the vanguard for a period of human-induced evolution, representing a turning point in history where beauty and physicality can be controlled and defined. Through his arresting portraits, he explores how controlling beauty can influence its power as a currency, whether beauty is informed by culture, history or the surgeon's hand and the reasons why people are compelled to re-make themselves.