Human Body Photography for 150 Years

Author: Gu Zheng
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Publication Date: 1998-12-01
Features: This is not only a high-quality book about the history of human body photography but also a book about the history of photography. Throughout the book, Gu Zheng maintains a humanistic theme, emphasizing the subject of human beings under the influence of sociology and providing a thorough elaboration. Gu Zheng powerfully demonstrates, through outstanding works and artists in history, that what is called the history of human body photography is, in fact, a history of how humans come to understand themselves. Any denial or undermining of the artistic value of the human body is tantamount to denying the existence value of humans, denying their aesthetic power as human beings, and denying the history of human self-awareness! In this way, Gu Zheng places human body photography on a scale of aesthetics and social consciousness, successfully examining a unique and distinctive aspect of human beings in the process of social development. Of course, not everyone can recognize this point. Even in the publishing industry, under the influence of excessive commercialization, people often cannot calmly view such books. The publishing industry has set extreme examples, with human body photography books being a prime example.