Real Women, Real Bodies
Dec. 8th, 2006 01:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
judith_sSaw this on boingboing, and had to share:
The Century Project (NSFW) by photographer Frank Cordelle shows images of women, nude, between the ages of zero and 100. They're real women, not idealized models. They have scars and bellies. He includes a short statement from or about each of the women as well. Apparently the East Bay Express newspaper has an article about this project. In any case, I thought it was fascinating, and very unlikely what we see normally in media.
The Century Project (NSFW) by photographer Frank Cordelle shows images of women, nude, between the ages of zero and 100. They're real women, not idealized models. They have scars and bellies. He includes a short statement from or about each of the women as well. Apparently the East Bay Express newspaper has an article about this project. In any case, I thought it was fascinating, and very unlikely what we see normally in media.
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Date: 2006-12-09 03:45 am (UTC)Check out the photo gallery. You'll find pictures of old women, young women, women from different ethnic backgrounds, women with alternatively colored/styled hair, little women, drooping breasted women and large bellied women. You may not find them to be as poignant as the set of shots you sent (for one thing, these women are clothed), but they do move in the right direction.
One of the things I have found disturbing recently is the competition for plus size modelling jobs. "Regular-sized" models are competing for these jobs and edging actual plus sized models out of the jobs. ):