Photos of cosmetic surgery facilities

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For her new book Singular Beauty, Cara Phillips photographed the insides of cosmetic surgery facilities, what she calls the "industrial beauty complex." Above is "White Consultation Room, Upper East Side, New York City, 2006." Wired posted a gallery here and you can pre-order a copy by emailing the publisher, Fw:

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TimmoWarner

I looked at the room in the post and immediately thought “Brazil!”
- niktemadur
  
  Really? My first thought was “So this is where astronaut/budding starchild Dave Bowman got his teeth fixed after the monolith portal”.
- bcsizemo
  
  I’m was thinking Logan’s Run, but mostly cause someone responded to a post of mine about healing lasers…
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFDLFEytmFo
seer

“I think we’ve lost him, Jack.”
http://twitter.com/writebastard Ian Wood

Exactly where I went. Thank you, Terry Gilliam! Now we can all find each other.
kP

This will all end in tears…
bcsizemo

I’m guessing the “room/facility” that is posted isn’t for doing invasive procedures. I can’t see how you’d get it clean/sterile.

Personally if I was a doctor I’d like it to be all stainless, preferably with an incinerate button. (Perhaps I’ve been watching to many Ridley Scott movies.)
- zartan
  
  that’s probably why it is called a “consultation room”
- Ito Kagehisa
  
  Stainless steel is a superb media for growing pathogenic organisms. Although it’ll be fine as long as you have that incinerate button and use it every time anyone touches anything, or breathes in the room for that matter.
  
  I’m always amazed at the way most of us assume, without any basis whatsoever, that “stainless” means inhospitable to disease. I’ve seen stuff growing in stainless steel water bottles that looked like kelp. Hospitals – which have access to scientific data proving how stupid this is – routinely ask for stuff to be made of stainless.
  
  Make something out of silver, copper or brass if you want it to be inherently self-sterilizing. Lead and platinum are also oligodynamic, but have other undesirable qualities.
http://www.facebook.com/postelwait Cameron Postelwait

i see the final shots of 2001 space odyssey before the orbiting fetus shot.
bluest_one

In the photo above, it’s all weirdly and unconvincingly fake.

Seems appropriate, really.
http://halfbakedmaker.org Robert Baruch

Oh! I was kinda wondering why I wasn’t seeing cosmetic surgery failures.
Antinous / Moderator

I’m really impressed that Wired has set up the slide show so that the whole page reloads every time you go to a new slide.
- niktemadur
  
  Amazing, isn’t it? What will they think of next?
  But yeah, one doesn’t expect such sloppy web design from Wired.