The Body: Photoworks Of The Human Form (Thames & Hudson 60th Anniversary Edition)

Thames & Hudson is celebrating it’s 60th Anniversary! To mark this special birthday we will be reissuing 20 titles from across our list as special editions. Popular when first published, popular now, with the added spice that – enhanced by their unique 60th Anniversary cover and jacket designs – they are set to become collectors items.

One of our biggest-selling titles ever: a seminal study of the human form in photography. " 'The Body' navigates the shoals and rapids of an aesthetically and politically loaded topic, and manages not only to survive the journey but also to shed substantial light on how photographers have used the human figure for a variety of pictorial purposes over more than 150 years", The New York Times Book Review.

From 19th-century erotica to the sexual politics of the 1990s, this collection of hundreds of images provides a rich archive of bodily forms, both male and female, featuring the work of some of the world’s outstanding photographers: Nadar and Muybridge in the early days, through Stieglitz, Weston and Man Ray to Robert Mapplethorpe, Bruce Nauman and Cindy Sherman. From medical photography to sport, fashion and dream imagery, this is an exciting and provocative record of the camera’s infatuation with the human figure.