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The Customized Body - Softcover

Randall, Housk; Polhemus/Randal; Polhemus, Ted

 
9781852426774: The Customized Body

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The most comprehensive review of body art ever assembled. Throughout history people have adorned and customized the body. Polhemus? text looks at this phenomenon from an anthropological perspective while Randall?s photographs touch all the bases - body painting, tattooing, piercing, corsets, scarring, hair, jewellery, masks and shoes - in graphic and dramatic style. A celebration of the most extraordinary, it also provokes us to think about the way we decorate, dress and adorn as we do.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Housk Randall is an award-winning photographer. He won the 1994 Erotic Oscar for best erotic photographer in the US and UK. His other works include The Customized Body and Rituals of Love (Picador). He has a post-graduate diploma in psycho-sexual theory and therapy and has spent two years as a sex counsellor at a leading London hospital. He lives in London.

Ted Polhemus is a journalist and photographer. He is a widely-used consultant on youth marketing and style trends and is the author of Bodystyles, Streetstyle, Fashion & Anti-Fashion and Popstyles.

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