If you’re like me, you love old-timey science and the peephole into the past that it gives us. I particularly love to learn about disorders that seemed to have a very strong social and cultural correlate. This particular article talks about hysteria and how, when doctors started to photograph patients in the throes of their [...]
Pre-pubescent beauty pageants in the US. Nose and leg lengthening implants in China. Skin bleaching in Africa. Prison beauty pageants in Brazil — with prizes for the most beautiful inmate.
These are just some of the things that photographer Zed Nelson captured on film for his book Love Me. Body modifications are as old as human [...]
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