The Customized Body - Softcover

Polhemus, Ted; Randall, Housk

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1852425229 ISBN 13: 9781852425227

Publisher: Serpent's Tail, 2000

Synopsis

Throughout history, mankind has adorned and customized the body. Over 100 photographs by "Erotic Oscar" winner Housk Randall touch all the bases--body shaping and painting, tattooing, scarification, piercing, and masks--in graphic and dramatic style, while the text by social antropologist Ted Polhemus explores the origins and development of these phenomena. 104 photos.

About this title

About the Author:

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.

Review:

?Keep it on your coffee table? Cosmospolitan ?Starkly beautiful alongside ominously outrageous, the photos in The Customized Body make you pause on every page; whether you like what you see or not; because you have to look? Alabama Forum ?An utterly stunning book of mesmerising pictures and lucid, informative text - the cutting edge of contemporary art Fetish Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Serpent's Tail
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1852425229
• ISBN 13: 9781852425227
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 120