In December 2022, my article “Quand la photographie de mode se revêt de la posthumanité” (When Fashion Photography Dresses in Posthumanity) was published in Políticas y narrativas del cuerpo (Politics and Narratives of the Body), a book edited by Lucía Caminada and Fernando Gonçalves. This work explores the transformations of the human body through contemporary fashion photography, in connection with the issues of posthumanism and representations of corporeality.
Reference of the conference proceedings:
“Quand la photographie de mode se revêt de la posthumanité” in Políticas y narrativas del cuerpo/Politiques et récits du corps/Politics and Narratives of the Body, edited by Lucía Caminada and Fernando Gonçalves, EUDENE, Secretaría de Ciencia y Técnica, Universidad Nacional del Nordeste, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Cenerientes, Argentina, Ceneri Rosse, Perudia, Italy, pp. 215-232.
Fashion Photography and Body Mutation
Fashion is a field of experimentation where the human body is constantly reinvented. Through digital artifices, aesthetic prostheses, and hybridization with technology, contemporary fashion photography does more than showcase clothing—it also probes the very nature of the body. Far from being merely a support, it becomes a malleable material reshaped by futuristic visions that redefine the boundaries between the human and the artificial.
Posthumanity and the Aesthetics of the Future
In this article, I explore how fashion photography appropriates the codes of posthumanism to propose augmented, modified, and sometimes dehumanized bodies. The works of artists and photographers like Nick Knight, Iris van Herpen, and Alexander McQueen illustrate this aesthetic where the body becomes a space for technological experimentation. Far from a simple pursuit of the avant-garde, these images question the place of the human in a world where artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and fashion intersect.
An Interdisciplinary Work
This article is part of a broader reflection carried by the book Políticas y narrativas del cuerpo (Politics and Narratives of the Body), which intersects the perspectives of human, social, and artistic sciences to rethink contemporary corporeality. Through an interdisciplinary approach, it analyzes how the body is constructed, represented, and experienced in our changing societies.