“Beauty Culture” is a fabulous show at the →Annenberg Space for Photography (which is a great space for exhibiting and featuring the art and craft of photography) in Century City, Los Angeles. If you are in or near southern California, you should definitely see this show. But you have only a week left; the show closes November 27.
In the words of the show description,
BEAUTY CULTURE provides a seminal examination of photography’s role in capturing and defining notions of modern female beauty and how these images profoundly influence our lives in both celebratory and disturbing ways.
The show presents a terrific collection of images, hundreds of them, by dozens of terrific and talented photographers, going back to the early days of photography. Even if seen only as a resource of many wonderful photographs in fashion and beauty, the show would be worth seeing. There’s great photographic talent on display, considerable in both quantity and quality.
More after the jump… Continue reading
