THE NAKED TRUTH by Antone Dolezal & Lara Shipley

The Naked Truth 
Antone Dolezal and Lara Shipley 
Yogurt Editions 

Book Design: Francesco Rombaldi
Hard cover
17 x 23 cm
176 pages
Print run: 500 copies
Printed by: Grafiche Veneziane, Italy

The Naked Truth combines traditional, manipulated, and performative photographs in dialogue with a historical archive, resurrecting the period of the Great Depression when a Victorian era health spa and resort was turned into a fake cancer curing hospital by “Dr.” Norman Baker. Baker began his career as a traveling vaudeville mesmerist, later finding success applying the same tools of spectacle and illusion as a medical charlatan.