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Sheldon Cooper

(3,724 posts)
Fri Apr 5, 2013, 07:09 PM Apr 2013

This is a thread with some amazing pictures, and I suppose I should put a warning in the title.

Although I don't find any of them offensive or anything. I just spent about 20 minutes looking at these, feeling frustrated because there is very little back story supplied with each picture. The subjects are said to have had reconstructive plastic surgery rather than cosmetic plastic surgery and I wanted to know what the original 'problem' was. And then I realized that the back story isn't really all that important. Our images and standards of conventional beauty don't typically include people that look like this, especially when they've done it to themselves. The photographer speculates that in another 50-100 years, we will use technology to redefine what it means to look human. Anyway, I find the images fascinating.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2304383/Classical-portraits-non-classical-beauty-Revealing-images-patients-undergone-extreme-plastic-surgery.html

A pioneering photographer is challenging traditional perceptions of beauty with a series of portraits in which all of the subjects have undergone extensive reconstructive plastic surgery.

Phillip Toledano's series of photos entitled 'A New Kind of Beauty?' began when he was offered an assignment to photograph a man who had undergone multiple plastic surgery procedures.


Plastic surgery patient Nikki pictured in 2009, one of photographer Phillip Toledano's unusual subjects for his series entitled A New Kind of Beauty?


Steve: Photographer Phillip Toledo began his unusual project after an assignment to photograph a man who'd had multiple plastic surgery procedures. After befriending the man's press officer he was put in contact with other plastic surgery patients


Angel: Photographer Phillip Toledano said his aim had been to make 'beautiful and distinguished' portraits and 'represent a particular part of beauty from our time'


Monique: Photographer Phillip Toledano was inspired by the 16th century German artist Hans Holbein whose portraits are considered to be some of the most realistic of the time


Dina: Mr Toledano said: 'In 50 or 100 years time, I think humanity won t look like it does today because of technology. We will be able to redefine what it means to look human and I think these people are the vanguard of that type of evolution'




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This is a thread with some amazing pictures, and I suppose I should put a warning in the title. (Original Post) Sheldon Cooper Apr 2013 OP
went thru the pictures three times. very interesting. now i ought to read, lol. seabeyond Apr 2013 #1
The pictures look like paintings to me. Sheldon Cooper Apr 2013 #2
no no i said. then what the fuck. two glasses are cool, right? nt seabeyond Apr 2013 #3
Two, for starters. Sheldon Cooper Apr 2013 #4
hey... i have things to do tonight. lol. nt seabeyond Apr 2013 #5
These look like CGI charecters. ismnotwasm Apr 2013 #6
CGI characters - that's what I couldn't put my finger on. Sheldon Cooper Apr 2013 #7
To think you're forcing evolution maybe? ismnotwasm Apr 2013 #8
Sorry, what is cgi? I did a google search and came up with a number of entries. smirkymonkey Apr 2013 #9
Computer generated images ismnotwasm Apr 2013 #10
Thanks! smirkymonkey Apr 2013 #11

ismnotwasm

(41,921 posts)
6. These look like CGI charecters.
Fri Apr 5, 2013, 10:09 PM
Apr 2013

Last edited Sat Apr 6, 2013, 09:19 AM - Edit history (1)

Another common theme in Sci Fi are 'body mods' usually from nanotechnology, that are used to improve or change appearance, or give abilities. It's still a ways off, but there probably WiLL come a day when it will happen----for those who can afford it.

Sheldon Cooper

(3,724 posts)
7. CGI characters - that's what I couldn't put my finger on.
Sat Apr 6, 2013, 08:30 AM
Apr 2013

Thanks for figuring that out. It's really quite striking, and I'm not sure in a good way. I like to believe I'm tolerant and accepting of everyone, but I still just wonder why you'd do that to yourself.

ismnotwasm

(41,921 posts)
8. To think you're forcing evolution maybe?
Sat Apr 6, 2013, 09:18 AM
Apr 2013

Not that that works. It really is a different standard of beauty, seems Lord of the Rings fantasy prone. I don't think in general people would find that look attractive. There is something compelling about it, but what you have to do to get there is rough.

Still it's interesting. Someday we may all look like Arwyn and Legolos.


 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
9. Sorry, what is cgi? I did a google search and came up with a number of entries.
Sun Apr 7, 2013, 02:16 PM
Apr 2013

I admit I am a bit naive on this subject.

ismnotwasm

(41,921 posts)
10. Computer generated images
Sun Apr 7, 2013, 02:34 PM
Apr 2013

Like they do in certain movies. Gollum, in Lord of The Rings was, in part, CGI

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