Juraj Lipscher, a photographer of Slovak origin who emigrated to Switzerland since 1968, observes the lives of his fellow citizens with distance and lucidity. Body Shops is a work on certain “questionable” developments in our contemporary societies. From maternity to the body-building center, including the brothel, these different series examine the relationship that Swiss society, in this way revealing most Western societies, maintains with the body in its social acceptance. Search for perfection, body sanitized even in the search for monetized pleasure, body put at a distance so as not to see, so as not to be confronted. Through a shot that is more of a bailiff's observation than a spectacular and empathetic photograph, the photographer does not seek to “catch” our gaze with an overly anecdotal vision but to make visible the dehumanization at work in these places. This scalpel survey concisely records images of activities that are very distant from each other but in the end paradoxically emerge the same feeling of unease. The very subtle prints where all the shades of gray come together allow this feeling of palpable (in)humanity to shine through and which gradually grips the reader. This book, disturbing in many ways, is that of a great photographer.