This Is Who I Am: Our Beauty in All Shapes and Sizes
by Rosanne Olson
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Author: Rosanne OlsonEdition: Hardcover
Published: 2008-04-01
ISBN: 1579653634
Number of pages: 116
Publisher: Artisan
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Book Review: Wide appeal
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a lovely book that will appeal to many, especially to women aware of or working on body-image issues. The wide range of ages (up to age 95) and body types, as well as each woman's text that accompanies the photo, help create the wide appeal. A photographer-friend loved how well the photos capture the unique beauty of each woman. The short personal vignettes bring up wide-ranging body issues including self-esteem, health, strength, and outer vs inner beauty. When the book arrived, my daughter (age 21) and I (55) looked at it together. We both found it amazing. The photos are art-quality, and the book contains such good messages that I leave it on display in the living room. Rosanne Olson has provided a great service (to both women and men) by turning her insights about beauty into published reality.
Summary of This Is Who I Am: Our Beauty in All Shapes and Sizes
Fifty-four portraits of women that are striking, beautiful, and real. The bodies in this book have been shaped by the full sweep of the feminine experience.They belong to 54 women from all over the country, ages 19 to 95, of all sizes and shapes, ethnicities, and life experiences, who were willing to expose their naked physical forms in This Is Who I Am. They are ordinary women only in the sense that none is a professional model. They are in all other ways extraordinary—courageous, curious, thoughtful, speaking unflinchingly about their bodies, then allowing themselves to be photographed to inspire other women to make peace with their physical selves, "to glorify the real beauty of all women."
Certainly, the feminine nude form is not new to artists and photographers. But the portraits in This Is Who I Am, taken by award-winning photographer Rosanne Olson, with a steady, unjudgmental eye, speak loudly to the American obsession of feminine perfection—slim hips and full breasts, high cheekbones and tiny waists, taut skin and eternal youth—and even more loudly to the way real women, with real bodies and real lives, look.
By turns tender, personal, and moving, this tribute to contemporary womanhood is the perfect gift for mothers to give to daughters, daughters to cousins, cousins to friends.
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