Photo of the Day- Plastic Surgery
by Tessa Smith
Chris Jordan’s photographs provoke a response by making visual the mind-boggling numbers of statistics. In his series, Running the Numbers he deals with the epidemic scale of the physical and ecological effects of human habits. The photo above is a detail of Barbie Dolls (2008).
Depicts 32,000 Barbies, equal to the number of elective breast augmentation surgeries performed monthly in the US in 2006.
View the entire series on Chris Jordan’s website.
Here he is on TED, discussing Running the Numbers in a piece called Picturing Excess.
Photo of the day is just something we’re trying out- a collection of interesting and inspiring photos from here and there. Click here for some previous posts.
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Published on: August 25th, 2008
Terms Used: barbie, breast augmentation, chris jordan, ecology, photo, photo of the day, plastic surgery, running the numbers, scale, statistics, TED, ted talks, waste
About: Tessa Smith
Tessa co-runs Fixture Records and plays in Brave Radar.
Email: Tessa @ indyish . com
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