Laurie Toby Edison

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Quoting Laurie Toby Edison and Debbie Notkin, writing on their always-engaging Body Impolitic blog:

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“We’ve been thinking about the story of Alex Lange, which was in the news earlier this month . . . [The Rocky Mountain Health Plans insurance company] didn’t change its mind because it thinks it was wrong: it changed its mind because Alex’s dad works in television.”

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*If you’re unfamiliar with the story, here’s a blurb/video that explains the details. And click here to read Laurie and Debbie’s full post.

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Quoting regular Irked contributor Lynne Murray, commenting on Laurie Toby Edison’s Body Impolitic blog:

A New Yorker cartoon I liked a lot (and lost so I don’t have the creator’s name) shows a man sitting on the metal table in the paper gown while the doctor looks at his file and says, “I see here you’re 57 years old. We’d like to get that down a bit.”

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Watch a fascinating 20-minute documentary about American photographer Laurie Toby Edison by Kyoto, Japan-based filmmaker John Wells. Edison speaks with Rebecca Jennison about her work in conjunction with the exhibition “Meditations on the Body” at the Osaka National Museum of Art.

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Women En Large & Familiar Men

Body Image Photography by Laurie Toby Edison  

Says Laurie: Women En Large is my statement on the female nude, at least for now, and Familiar Men is my statement on the male nude. The five years I spent photographing men and talking with them transformed my vision of masculinity in this time and place, as well as how I perceive the body in my work.

“I show the disappeared, I make the invisible visible.”

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