A review by rebbeh
The Atlas of Beauty: Women of the World in 500 Portraits by Mihaela Noroc

4.0

I did really enjoy this book. However I don’t think it is as diverse and representative as it could or should be. Noroc mentions how beauty means more than attractiveness and that it is more about letting people see the beauty on the inside. Yet most of the women have attractive facial features and slim bodies. I miss the transgendered, fat, androgynous, weak, angry, sad, joyfull, tomboys, emo and disabled, covered-up and undressed (etc) women.
Women. Plural. Not just in 10 of 500 photographs. I really like the photographs! And I do love the range of different and similar women across the globe, I just wish it showed a less of the ‘pretty and smiling’ woman. Being angry and upset can be beautiful. And as this is an atlas of beauty I hope beauty as a definition would be explored more.