Title:Face-The New Photographic Portrait.

Author:William A.Ewing.

Publisher:Thames&Hudson,2006.

Binding:Hardback,with D/J.

Condition:Good.With 229 Pages,258 Illustrations-166 in Colour,92 in Duotone.

Size:28.5Cm by 24Cm.

Contents:Preface//Introduction-About Face//I-Gazes[1-Facing Up//2-Facing Down]//II-Looks[3-Masks//4-Mergers]//III-Facades[5-Losing Face//6-Saving Face]//IV-Transplants[7-Faking Faces//8-Making Faces]//Notes.List of Artists.Index.

In this groundbreaking publication,William A.Ewing annouces the death of conventional portrait.In an age when we are bombarded with flawless images of youthful beauty,when rejuvenation is available through a jar of cream or a scalpel,it is no wonder that a new generation of artists and photographers are seeking to portray the face in new ways.

Through a variety  of techniques,including computer manipulation,retouching,photomontage,appropriation of found imagery and methods of veiling and disguising,the artists present their provocative new portraits.Replacing clarity with blur,the split-second with the elastic moment,reality with hyperreality,the question the notion of a fixed identity,of the face as"the window to the soul",of what constitutes beauty,of faith in absolute photographic truth.As Ewing argues,their exciting new portraiture,with its focus on what is revealed rather than what is concealed,is curiously closer to portraiture of the nineteenth century than to that of the twentieth.

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