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Singular Beauty: Photographing Cosmetic Surgery Clinics

As the adage goes, document what you know. Cara Phillips has never gone under the knife of a plastic surgeon, but she has photographed dozens of plastic surgery rooms around the country — all under the glare of florescent surgery lights. A former child model, Phillips chose photography as a way to turn her own lens on an industry she felt objectified women — and to battle her own body image demons. The result is Singular Beauty, a book of haunting portraits of the insides of cosmetic surgery offices and their promise of a better you.

What drew you to document the beauty industry?

Before I became a photographer, I spent most of my life in the beauty business, first as a child model and later as makeup artist. From a very early age, I learned that being beautiful was both valuable and required of women. These experiences left me with some serious body-image issues. So the decision to focus my camera on beauty started off as a personal exploration, but as the project progressed, my focus shifted to the larger cultural issues of aging, desire, and physical perfection. The cosmetic surgery industry is the ultimate expression of the relentless American pursuit of youth and beauty.

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Catherine Henessey

lusttforlifeblog:

Get The Look: Palazzo Pants by lusttforlife featuring gucci

milkstudios:

Check(ers) Please.

wetheurban:

#PFW: LOUIS VUITTON SPRING/SUMMER 2013

This season, Louis Vuitton was full of pop, print, and color! Ending Paris Fashion Week beautifully, Creative director Marc Jacobs enlisted three escalators for the show for the paired up models to stride down before strutting their stuff on the catwalk. Jacobs overlooked the common stripe making checked Damier print the main motif for the collection - appearing in green, brown, black&white, and (our favorite) bright yellow 60s-esque creations. 

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publicartfund:

Berenice Abbott captures Columbus Circle in 1938. That area’s looking a little different right now. 

jenbekmanprojects:

Columbus Circle, Manhattan, 1938 by is the first in a series we’re launching by legendary photographer Berenice Abbott to benefit the 20x200 Artist Fund.

Berenice Abbott’s story reads like the stuff of bohemian culturati dreams. Learn more about the artist’s life and work in our newsletter. 

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© Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Aug. 1927, Bibi, l’ombre et le reflet, Hendaye

Like Peter Pan, at just seven years of age Jacques-Henri Lartigue decided to dedicate his life to the pursuit of happiness and never growing up. His father gave him the ultimate present with which to document a lifetime’s enjoyment: a camera, and luckily for us, Lartigue was determined to photograph everything. He did indeed lead a charmed life, and all the excitement and allure of the last days of the belle époque are epitomised in some of the most seductively stylish photographs ever taken.

Lartigue is considered by many to be one of the greatest photographers of the 20th Century, and for someone who never intended his photographs to be exhibited, they have quite rightly become the absolute last word in French style, glamour and luxury. For Lartigue himself, his photographs were merely “snaps” for his personal albums, and remained so until they were seen in 1962 by John Sarkovsky, then director of Museum of Modern Art in New York. He immediately arranged an exhibition of a selection of some of Lartigue’s now best-known images, though the treasure-trove of beauty and elegance extended far beyond these. (+)

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