• In Terry Lorant's book entitled Reconstructing Aphrodite the photographs examine women who have undergone reconstruction after breast cancer.
   
  
• Eleanor Antin photographed herself over a slimming program.
   
  
• Annie Noggle well known for her portrais of middle aged and older people, particularly her friends and family, also completed a study called Face Lift that examined her own responses to having the operation.
   
  
• Anna & Bernhard Blume in Das Gluck Ist Ohne Pardon/Joy Knows No Mercy: Polaroids shows people changed through ornamentation.
   
  
• John Coplans has spent long years photographing his own body as it changes over time. The result is like a Medieval drawing book by Leonardo - a dispassionate analysis of increasing human frailty.
   
  
• One couple of photographers, Melanie Dunea and Nigel Parry, discussed what was their favorite body parts and then explored the issue with celebrities. This seemingly simple question has surprising results and uncovers realms of self absorption.
   
  
• Henry Horenstein in his 2003 book entitled Humans examines different parts of the human body in close up detail. The body when few close up becomes a strange landscape of parts that we all know but are somehow removed from the detail.

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