Body modification encompasses a wide array of intentional alterations of the human form, including tattooing, piercing, scarification, cosmetic surgery and implant procedures. Once largely confined to ...

A neck coiled with rope. A waist cinched with a leather belt. Lips clipped with clothes pins. Nipples festooned with fishing lures. To behold the early photographic self-portraits of Fakir Musafar, ...

Kim Kardashian has been vocal about letting daughter North West “express herself” through boundary-pushing clothes, colorful ...

Fakir Musafar started photographing his own piercings and body modifications in secret in his family home in 1944, when he was just 14 years old. Wearing jockstraps, head coverings, neck stretching ...

In a previous PT blog-post, I challenged you to consider whether body piercing and tattooing are forms of self-expression or self-mutilation. I would now like to focus on an even more fascinating (pop ...

A BODY TO LIVE IN offers an uncompromising look at the rise of BDSM performance art, body modification and the ‘modern primitives’ cultural movement through the agonies and ecstasies of transgressive ...

The history of the neutral mask, then known as the "noble mask", began at the Vieux-Colombier school, founded by Jacques Copeau in Paris in 1913. Actor, director and teacher Jacques Lecoq, founder of ...