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Is beauty something inherent or is it embodied?
Out [o] Fashion Photography: Embracing Beauty challenges conventional perspectives on beauty and reveals why the camera remains a powerful device for exploring how we see oters and view ourselves.

This exhibition brings together a juxtapositon of new and unknown works that offers a cross-cultural read on beauty through portraiture, documentary and constructed images, and fashion photography from the 19th to the 21st centuries.

Through photographical and video imagery culled from the collections of Henry Art Gallery and the University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections, audiences will explore historical and cultural perceptions of idealized beauty, gender and identity, and desire.
