Douglas R. Mitchell Knihy

Body Painting, from Wolfgang Publications, uses a wealth of photos to introduce a new art form. Follow step-by-step photos that document the transformation from bare skin to something more colorful and beautiful than skin alone. Ten chapters present the work of ten established artists, each with a different vision and a different approach. A Q&A in each chapter allows the artist to share their preference for paint and tools, as well as advice for those who want to try this for themselves. Photographer Doug Mitchel presents over 600 images showing ten different models as they morph into creations born in the artist's imagination. Whether it's an erotic Fantasy Fest outfit or a red-faced devil with exposed spine, the designs are sure to please. This book is certain to push the evolution of Body Painting. Chapter eleven offers advice on the choice of paints and tools. Find out whether water or alcohol based paint is the best choice for you, and which brands of brush and airbrush work best for painting the human body. With a photo-intense layout, Body Painting is both a visual feast celebrating a new art form, and an instructive how-to book that will help you raise your art to the next level.

We are living in a time of great panic about “sex trafficking”—an idea whose meaning has been expanded beyond any real usefulness by evangelicals, conspiracy theorists, anti-prostitution feminists, and politicians with their own agendas. This is especially visible during events like the FIFA World Cup and the Olympic Games, when claims circulate that as many as 40,000 women and girls will be sex trafficked. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Brazil as well as interviews with sex workers, policymakers, missionaries, and activists in Russia, Qatar, Japan, the UK, and South Africa, Gregory Mitchell shows that despite baseless statistical claims to the contrary, sex trafficking never increases as a result of these global mega-events—but police violence against sex workers always does.While advocates have long decried this myth, Mitchell follows the discourse across host countries to ask why this panic so easily embeds during these mega-events. What fears animate it? Who profits? He charts the move of sex trafficking into the realm of the spectacular—street protests, awareness-raising campaigns, telenovelas, social media, and celebrity spokespeople—where it then spreads across borders. This trend is dangerous because these events happen in moments of nationalist fervor during which fears of foreigners and migrants are heightened and easily exploited to frightening ends.