Bodies Altered in Pursuit of Beauty – Lens

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Bodies Altered in Pursuit of Beauty

Zed Nelson documents bodily transformations. As Nadia Sussman reports, he thinks they reflect globalization as much as a Starbucks in Beijing.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/31/showcase-145/

Playing on the conventions of commercial photography, Zed Nelson has explored the reach of the global beauty industry in “Love Me,” an artful catalog of operations and other bodily transformations — some of them practically medieval — in 17 countries on five continents.

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