The Body and the Lens: Photography 1839 to the Present (Perspectives)

John Pultz examines issues in photography by focusing on one of its greatest and sometimes most controversial subjects--the human body. Beginning with early tintype images and moving to classic modernist and contemporary experimental works, Pultz explores images of the body--male and female, child and adult, nude and clothed. In the process he uncovers issues of historical context, politics, gender, and race.