'Plastic Bodies' Series By Sheila Pree Bright Will Make You Think Differently About Beauty

We've seen what a Barbie doll would look like if modeled after the average 19-year-old woman. But when you juxtapose a doll's facial features with a real woman's, the results are startling. That's what photographer Sheila Pree Bright did in her 2003 series "Plastic Bodies," which is currently part of the traveling art show "Posing Beauty in African American Culture." Pree Bright's work focuses mostly on women of color, exploring their complex relationships to white beauty standards by combining ...