World Photography History

Author: Gu Zheng
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: Since the birth of Zhang’s human body photography, it has become a genuine target of controversy. Is it human beauty? Or a projection of sexual desires and sexual concepts? Where lies the boundary between art and pornography? Is art really a veil for human body photography? This is a high-quality book about the history of human body photography, as well as a book about the history of photography. Throughout the book, the author Gu Zheng consistently adheres to a humanistic theme, examining the entire history of human body art through a sociological lens. Gu Zheng compellingly demonstrates, through historical masterpieces and artists, that what is called the history of human body photography is, in fact, a history of how humans come to understand themselves. Gu Zheng places human body photography on the scales of aesthetics and social consciousness, successfully examining a distinctive aspect of human development in the course of social progress. This book builds upon the foundation of A Century and a Half of Human Body Photography with additional content such as 11 Masters of Human Body Photography and Eleven Paths to the Human Body.