`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 through more than 150 years` )
– New York Times Book Review

From 19th-century erotica to the sexual poliics 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 the recent 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.