One of the leading figures of staged photography, Skoglund plans her final, hyper-coloured image with extreme attention to the details of the set: open or closed spaces, mostly monochrome, in which identical subjects, apparently mass-produced, stand out from the background through a bold chromatic contrast. Each work is like a door opening onto the incredible, the impossible, the fantastic. The book presents for the first time a unique selection of the innovative and controversial works of the American artist who revolutionised the notion of the real, and accompanied the exhibition at Palazzo Giovanelli in Venice during the 2009 Art Biennale. "For me, a world without artificial enhancements would be unimaginable, brutally reduced to raw nature with no possibility of human intervention."