The body

From 19th-century erotica to the sexual poliics of the 1990s, this collection of hundreds of images provides a rich archive of bodily forms, both male and female, featuring the work of some of the world’s outstanding photographers: Nadar and Muybridge in the early days, through Stieglitz, Weston, and Man Ray to the recent Mapplethorpe, Bruce Nauman and Cindy Sherman. From medical photography to sport, fashion and dream imagery, this is an exciting and provocative record of the camera’s infatuation with the human figure.