As a makeup artist, I love faces – that goes without saying. But I don’t just love a pretty face with makeup on it – there are interesting faces everywhere, and all kinds of ways to look at faces, too!
Thérèse Le Prat (1895-1966) is a French photographer whose work I recently discovered. She loved faces – you could say she was obsessed by them – and for those of us who also love faces, her work is a …
Haifa, Israel: Twenty women between the ages of 74-90 competed for the title of “Most Beautiful Holocaust Survivor” last night. 74-year-old contestant Esther Liber, shown here dancing with 89-year-old Jenia Schwartzbart, told Ynet News: “I’m not in it to win. I’m competing because it puts us all in a good mood and is a pleasant experience.” Romanian-born Chaya Caspi, 78, says, “what matters is internal beauty and helping one another.” While the charity event had its detractors, from the looks of …
Do we create our own identities, or are they created for us? In the age of seemingly infinite aesthetic choices (including surgery), are our physical identities truly fluid, or are they dependent on the stage upon which we perform?
Visiting the Cindy Sherman retrospective at MOMA, there’s a lot to be divined on these questions. Sherman, who has famously cast herself as various personas in self portraits for the past thirty-seven years, has used the genre to explore perception …
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