Face: A Visual Odyssey
Considering tintype photography, digital selfies, mug shots, celebrity photoshoots, Polaroids and more, Helfand examines why and how humans capture their own faces and others', and the ways those images are used: analyzed, judged, manipulated, glorified.Beautifully designed and smartly written, this book is an unique view of the visage as image and beyond.Helfand's interrogations are topical, thought-provoking, and often troubling. Cleopatra: The ancient alchemist who quested for goldWe have long tried to tweak the features nature dealt us, whether with magic creams, gadgets or exercise (even Cleopatra practiced face yoga). A must-read as well as a treasury of images.Jessica Helfand looks at the cultural significance of the face through a critical lens, both as social currency and as palimpsest of history. "Why are we all doing Zoom meetings now?
By turns alarming and awe-inspiring, Face offers up an elaborately illustrated A to Z—from the didactic anthropometry of the late-nineteenth century to the selfie-obsessed zeitgeist of the twenty-first. By turns alarming and awe-inspiring, Face offers up an elaborately illustrated A to Z-from the didactic anthropometry of the late-nineteenth century to …
Face: A Visual Odyssey. Jessica Helfand looks at the cultural significance of the face through a critical lens, both as social currency and a The person telling the story—the portrait artist, the director, the member of the family with the camera who is least likely to cut off heads—is never in the picture.
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If more people could start to think about their faces as connectors, as a litmus test to a deeper human truth, then this book will have had some impact." Gohar created a series of "flawed" passport photos to questions notions of prejudice when it comes to self-presentation.Catherine Opie: 'Beauty has to encompass more about the human condition' "One of the things I learned from spending two years looking at faces is that when you look at someone else's face, you have to look squarely at your own reflection. Helfand is less interested in the mechanisms, technologies, and infrastructures of facial recognition software and more interested in the artifacts and narratives they produce. A must-read as well as a treasury of images.Jessica Helfand is at it again, going for the face with her usual brilliant and focused eye. Through an extraordinary set of striking, mostly photographic, images from the nineteenth century to the present, the author poses a wide variety of thought-provoking questions, including considerations of heredity, identity, physiognomy, and the impact of science and pseudo-science on our evaluation of facial anatomy. An elaborately illustrated A to Z of the face, from historical mugshots to Instagram posts. Hefland isn't so sure. Endlessly fascinating. Because we're reassured by seeing other people's faces, their lips move and their voices connected to a person," she said. The person telling the story—the portrait artist, the director, the member of the family with the camera who is least likely to cut off heads—is never in the picture. "I wish I could say yes," she said. From police mugshots and dating-site selfies, to politicians' headshots, Victorian death portraits and rubberised sex-dolls -- all to grapple with the way our faces have been presented and judged over the centuries -- and the lengths we've gone to, to "improve" them. Helfand's touch is deft and light, allowing readers to draw their own conclusions about the intertwined anecdotes and theories of the face.Jessica Helfand's book reminds the reader that their face is a territory of both power and vulnerability. Helfand's visual odyssey nudges readers to look and look again at the faces of world leaders, immigrants, popular figures--even at the face they see in the mirror--to discern what they might reveal. Helfand's touch is deft and light, allowing readers to draw their own conclusions about the intertwined anecdotes and theories of the face.Everything you ever wanted to know about the face, plus lots you never knew you would want to know—and a few things you wish you didn't.
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