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Uncovered: Busting Out in the Big Apple
This is a collection of photographs featuring bare-breasted women in public around New York City, often presented with interviews exploring the issues of body image and sexuality in America today. The informal and humorous nature of these images celebrates women without sexualizing or objectifying them, while creating the illusion of a tolerant world in which shirtless women go casually about their lives. Uncovered represents just one aspect of what America could look like if we were free of shame and liberated from moral judgment. This project has been featured by the Today Show, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, the BBC, Sex TV (Canada), NY1 News, WROC-TV Rochester, the New York Daily News, The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, Time Out New York, Salir Urban Magazine (Spain), el Periodico Newspaper (Spain), Haftalik Magazine (Turkey), la Repubblica Magazine (Italy), Tachydromos Magazine (Greece), WOR Radio, CBS Radio, Radio Free Wease, Susan Seligson's memoir Stacked: A 32DDD Reports from the Front (Bloomsbury USA, 2007), The Art Mine Gallery in Seattle and the Foley Gallery in Chelsea.
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I really enjoyed looking through these photographs last night. A lot of the commentary was interesting too. Seeing a photography project that shows women's breasts as something other than sexual objects really makes the feminist in me celebrate. In a world where so much of the media is aimed at making women feeling ashamed, inadequte, unsatisfied, and insecure about their bodies... seeing someone portray the wild idea that "You are beautiful as you are" is like finding an oasis in a dry and barren desert. He didn't take these photographs to please audiences... if you find any of the pictures unpleasing, who cares what you think? I admit there were many photos I didn't think were attractive on the surface, but that... well, that either is or is not the point, depending on how you look at it. What I did find attractive about all the photos was just the fact that these were every day women; not models who starve themselves and do other ridiculous things so that when normal women see them on magazines they wonder, "Why don't I look like that? Why am I so fat?" Well, you're "fat" (and this word in the woman world has pretty much lost meaning as EVERY woman no matter her size thinks she is fat) because you are a normal human being who *gasp* eats three square meals a day! ...and if you, like me, ignore the beauty magazines (I myself would rather read TIME anyway!)... you feel better. I recognize just fine on my own what my health needs are (notice I said "health" not "weight")... I don't need some trashy magazine telling me.
Well I don't feel like getting into a full rant about body image. I mostly just like to enjoy the fact that these images are revolutionary, I feel.
Anyway, I'm heading back to MHC today for my last time. I graduate on Sunday. In September, I leave for Spain!!! But until then i still need to find something to do.
This is a collection of photographs featuring bare-breasted women in public around New York City, often presented with interviews exploring the issues of body image and sexuality in America today. The informal and humorous nature of these images celebrates women without sexualizing or objectifying them, while creating the illusion of a tolerant world in which shirtless women go casually about their lives. Uncovered represents just one aspect of what America could look like if we were free of shame and liberated from moral judgment. This project has been featured by the Today Show, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, the BBC, Sex TV (Canada), NY1 News, WROC-TV Rochester, the New York Daily News, The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, Time Out New York, Salir Urban Magazine (Spain), el Periodico Newspaper (Spain), Haftalik Magazine (Turkey), la Repubblica Magazine (Italy), Tachydromos Magazine (Greece), WOR Radio, CBS Radio, Radio Free Wease, Susan Seligson's memoir Stacked: A 32DDD Reports from the Front (Bloomsbury USA, 2007), The Art Mine Gallery in Seattle and the Foley Gallery in Chelsea.
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I really enjoyed looking through these photographs last night. A lot of the commentary was interesting too. Seeing a photography project that shows women's breasts as something other than sexual objects really makes the feminist in me celebrate. In a world where so much of the media is aimed at making women feeling ashamed, inadequte, unsatisfied, and insecure about their bodies... seeing someone portray the wild idea that "You are beautiful as you are" is like finding an oasis in a dry and barren desert. He didn't take these photographs to please audiences... if you find any of the pictures unpleasing, who cares what you think? I admit there were many photos I didn't think were attractive on the surface, but that... well, that either is or is not the point, depending on how you look at it. What I did find attractive about all the photos was just the fact that these were every day women; not models who starve themselves and do other ridiculous things so that when normal women see them on magazines they wonder, "Why don't I look like that? Why am I so fat?" Well, you're "fat" (and this word in the woman world has pretty much lost meaning as EVERY woman no matter her size thinks she is fat) because you are a normal human being who *gasp* eats three square meals a day! ...and if you, like me, ignore the beauty magazines (I myself would rather read TIME anyway!)... you feel better. I recognize just fine on my own what my health needs are (notice I said "health" not "weight")... I don't need some trashy magazine telling me.
Well I don't feel like getting into a full rant about body image. I mostly just like to enjoy the fact that these images are revolutionary, I feel.
Anyway, I'm heading back to MHC today for my last time. I graduate on Sunday. In September, I leave for Spain!!! But until then i still need to find something to do.
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