Women En Large
Images of Fat Nudes
“The photographs of Laurie Toby Edison ... are sublime black-and-white essays on the beauty of the human body that are also a protest against preconceived images of beauty that discriminate against those who don’t fit the bill.”
— Mary Gallant, Asahi Evening News
Familiar Men
A Book of Nudes
“As far back as I can remember, I’d always known that Real Men don’t really have asses. They walk all seized up, or run the risk of being accused of being a wimp or a faggot. It made my back hurt and it made my soul hurt, just so I could try to be a Real Man.”
— Charlie Glickman
Women of Japan
“I had to face the features in the picture. I was ready to see how aging would unavoidably affect my looks. ...Here I am, standing in front of the closed gate with my arms outspread. ... What am I defending and from what? What am I facing? Could I have taken alternative ways?”
— Hiroko Hagiwara