Featuring the pale faces of 100 figures, artist Andrea Mary Marshall’s 2010 series, ‘100 Smokers’ explores our cultures obsession with beauty and self-destruction. Slashes of vivid color mark the hair of each model as cigarettes dangle from their pouty lips in the tightly focused portraits of a smattering of models. Their nudity suggests a subtle vulnerability, but their unflinching gazes portray them as masters of their ephemeral beauty. View selected images from the series after the jump.
