Women En Large
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| Author | Laurie Toby Edison |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Fine art photography |
| Publisher | Books in Focus |
Publication date | October 31, 1994 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (Trade Paperback) |
| Pages | 116 |
| ISBN | 1-885495-00-5 |
| OCLC | 31622252 |
| 779/.23/092 20 | |
| LC Class | TR675 .E33 1994 |
| Followed by | Familiar Men: A Book of Nudes |
Women En Large: Images of Fat Nudes by Laurie Toby Edison, with text by Debbie Notkin, was published in 1994 by Books in Focus. The book is a fine-art photography book of nudes of fat women.[1][2] It contains 41 black-and-white photographs and two essays by Notkin, plus an artist's statement by Edison and an assortment of work (poetry, songs, quotations) by the women in the photographs.
Tracy Young, reviewing the book in Allure magazine, said, "Like painter Lucian Freud's monumental nudes of performance artist Leigh Bowery... the nude women in Women En Large have a certain majesty, the unabashedness of Henry Moore sculptures. They have escaped. And they're enough to convince you that clothes, not flesh, are what makes fat people look diminished."
Photographs from Women En Large have been shown in New York, Tokyo,[3] Kyoto, Toronto, Boston, London, St. Petersburg, Beijing, Seoul, Budapest, and San Francisco.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ "Picture book celebrates women who are proud of their 'extravagant' bodies". Star Tribune. March 23, 1994. Retrieved 22 May 2012.
- ^ Braziel, Jana Evans; LeBesco, Kathleen (2001-09-13). Bodies Out of Bounds: Fatness and Transgression. University of California Press. pp. 137–. ISBN 9780520225855. Retrieved 22 May 2012.
- ^ Hiroshi Yoshioka (2002). "The Invisible Male Body". Filozofski vestnik. 23 (2): 111–117. Here: p.111–112
- ^ "Curriculum Vitae - Laurie Toby Edison: Photographer". Laurie Toby Edison. Retrieved 2014-07-30.