title: Doppelganger: Images of the Human Being
author: Robert Klanten
description: The digital age has fundamentally changed traditional notions of who we are and how we wish to be perceived. The music producer Chris Walla puts it this way: Confronted with our significantly more banal everyday life, we re measuring our actual selves against our online selves with hopeful resignation. <br />Doppelganger presents current trends in the depiction of human beings. In today s images and sculptures, personal identities are being intensified,<br />altered, or created through the use of techniques such as deformation and construction/deconstruction as well as the obliteration of classical proportions, visual traditions, and what is generally considered beautiful and fashionable. The book shows permutations of the outer human shell created with costumes and masks as well as photo-technical and artistic manipulation. These take their visual cues from such diverse aesthetics as Dada, surrealism, high tech, cutting-edge fashion design, and the folklore of other<br />cultures. Masquerades and artificial characters are used imaginatively to enhance and obscure true identities. With examples ranging from the intimate to the radical, Doppelganger explores how many or how few effects the depiction of a person can take in order to function as such. In doing so, the book shows that the unique visual appearances being created today often reveal more about the identities of their subjects and creators than their real faces ever could.
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  DOPPELGÄNGER
  
  
  by Susan Cory
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  Doppelgänger © 2019
  
  
  Published by Susan Cory
  
  
  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either
  are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any
  resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is
  entirely coincidental. All rights reserved. Except as permitted under the U.S.
  Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced,
  distributed or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a
  database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the
  publisher.
  
  
  ISBN-13: 978-0-9853702-6-8
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  Dedicated to Zack and Alice
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  PROLOGUE
  
  
  “No way.” Rosica Bakalov stared more closely at the picture on the monitor. It
  was like looking in a mirror—the same slightly curved nose and pale skin. The
  same almond-shaped eyes, although Rosica's were green, not brown.
  
  
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