Books: A 'Subversive, Empathetic Ode' to Female Bodybuilders
Above: From Core, by Celia Croft and Kate Kidney Bishop
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Women and muscle continue to be a radical combination.
In the 1980s, photographer Robert Mapplethorpe’s portraits of bodybuilder Lisa Lyon provocatively questioned ideals of beauty, and now the book Core, from London-based photographer Celia Croft and art director Kate …