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- Title
THE EFFORT OF PERFECTION.
- Authors
GRANT, CATHERINE
- Abstract
The essay discusses perfection in the context of the nude female body and its depiction in photography. Topics include the photographs of girls by contemporary artists Rineke Dijkstra and Katy Grannan, how their work interacts with popular culture and its images of perfected femininity, and the fantasy of the perfect female body through the adolescent in the 20th and 21st centuries. Other topics include the concept of 'effort of perfection' and the definitions of perfection and perfect youth.
- Subjects
NUDE in art; PHOTOGRAPHY of the nude; PHOTOGRAPHY of women; EROTIC photography; DIJKSTRA, Rineke; GRANNAN, Katy
- Publication
Critical Photography Series, 2013, p105
- ISSN
2041-8345
- Publication type
Essay