A New Kind Of Beauty

This is a book of portraits of people who have re-created themselves through plastic surgery.Phillip Toledano believes that we are at the vanguard of a period of human-induced evolution. A turningpoint in history where we are beginning to define not only our own concept of beauty, but of physicalityitself.¿ Beauty has always been a currency, and now that we finally have the technological meansto mint our own, what choices do we make?¿ Is beauty informed by contemporary culture? By history? Or is it defined by the surgeon¿s hand?¿ When we re-make ourselves, are we revealing our true character, or are we stripping awayour very identity?¿But the impact of these faces and the bodies is jarring, even alienating. The sitters¿ motivations for theseenormous changes are undoubtedly personal and deeply felt, but the enormity of that transgressive actionchallenges us as the viewer to sort out our own ideas about beauty and gender.¿¿W.M. HuntPhillip Toledano lives and works in New York. Phillip¿s work is socio-political, and varies in medium, fromphotography, to installation. Toledano has three monographs published on his artistic practice, with themost recent, Days With My Father, being received to critical acclaim.His work has appeared in Vanity Fair, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Harpers, Esquire,GQ, Wallpaper, The London Times, The Independent, Le Monde, and Interview magazine, amongst others.W.M. Hunt is a New York-based collector, curator, consultant and overall champion of photography. TheUnseen Eye: Photographs from the W.M. Hunt Collection was published by Aperture in the US, andThames & Hudson in the UK, in October 2011.