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FACE: THE NEW PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITURE

By Smith, Meghan
Publication: Afterimage
Date: Jan/Feb 2007 2007

FACE: THE NEW PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITURE by William A. Ewing. Thames & Hudson/340 pp./$50.00 (hb).

William A. Ewing's Face: The Mew Photographic Portraiture is a fresh look at this longstanding practice. This book is a progressive collection comprised of both color and black-and-white photographs

varying in style and technique. All of the contributing artists work within similar structures: the human portrait and what that human condition looks like amid today's technologies and changing times.

Face boldly brings the much visited subject of portraiture forward for critical review, touching on but not holding the hand of famed photographers such as Richard Avedon and Annie Leibovitz. Besides the unexpected and new images, the supporting text, themes, and ideas themselves are not to be ignored. The book runs the gamut, dealing with issues of media literacy, cultural identity, genetic manipulation, advertising stratagems, reworked images, and made-up beauty. Diving deeper into some of these complex issues, Ewing incorporates the history of photography to help the reader understand more about the main developments in portraiture and its place in this world.

Face is a highly recommendable book underlining the importance of media education, and allowing any portraitist to approach greater issues in the field with wider eyes.

MEGHAN SMITH

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