Overview

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, 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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9781852426774

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?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

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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.

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