Photographers:
Connections:

Parts of the body


 
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Contents

Introduction
1Portraiture of parts of the body
2Portraits using just a part of the body
3Facial hair, mustaches, beards and sideburns
4Bust portraits
Photographers
5John Coplans: Self portraits
6David Goldblatt: Particulars
7Mark Cohen: The partial human
8Count Theodore Zichy: The fetishism of legs and feet

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