Day 151: Inelegant, ungainly, lumpy, bulgy, knobby, awkward...any of these terms could be applied to the human body, making it one of the most interesting and difficult subjects for even the best photographers. The camera has a way of bringing out the worst in us, revealing such a wealth of flaws that we may well wonder why we find our own kind attractive, but the appeal is in the very imperfections inherent in the body's form. For all our graceless topography, we carry a sense of poetry about us, one line flowing into another, curves moderating angles. Remarkable in our lack of physical beauty, we are a creature nonetheless aesthetically pleasing in each other's eyes.
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