Mustafa Sabbagh

Mustafa Sabbagh: About Skin
Publisher's Description
As image-smoothing technologies
improve, photo retouching has
come to play an ever more decisive
role in the creation of photographic
images of the human form. Italian-
Jordanian photographer Mustafa
Sabbagh’s About Skin is therefore
all the more striking for the close
attention it pays to the variations
and imperfections that inhere in its
titular subject: moles, scars, reddened
skin, veins, wrinkles, bruises,
stretch marks, signs left by clothing.
The 40 full-page color photographs
presented here—which
include landscapes, fashion and
still lifes as well—form a kind of
atlas on skin that also refers the
observer, on the one hand, to
Northern European painting from
the 1500s and 1600s (for example,
Dutch still life and Northern
Renaissance portraiture) and, on
the other, to contemporary photos
by Wolfgang Tillmans, Juergen
Teller and Rineke Dijkstra.
ISBN: 8862081480
Publisher: Damiani
Hardcover : 104 pages
Language: English
Dimensions: 8.9 x 11.6 x 0.6 inches
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Publisher: Damiani
Hardcover : 104 pages
Language: English
Dimensions: 8.9 x 11.6 x 0.6 inches