THE HUMAN BODY

“Though nudes are one of the most coherent traditions in photography of the last century, a serious public discussion about the motif of the human body, which has been used extensively in all forms of communication and especially in advertising, could not take place in such a codified area.” But in the last century, medical-technical photography, which goes from X-ray images and video probes to the screening and scanning of single cells it has delivered increasingly spectacular and at the same time abstract views of the human body. – Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung