This Is Who I Am: Our Beauty in All Shapes and Sizes | 
 enlarge | Author: Rosanne Olson
Publisher: Artisan
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 13190
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 116
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 11.1 x 7.6 x 0.8
ISBN: 1579653634
Dewey Decimal Number: 155.333
EAN: 9781579653637
ASIN: 1579653634
Publication Date: April 1, 2008
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Product Description
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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This Is Who You Are, Too April 23, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is not a review. This is a rhapsody. If you are a woman, you will find yourself in these pages, in these photographs, in these stories. If you are a man, you will find your girlfriend, your mother, your wife, your sister, your aunt, your grandmother. Though these stories and exquisite photographs are of 54 individual women of all ages, races and body-types, their courageous words and photographs will break open your heart to your own beauty, suffering, doubt, rage, sorrow, joy, pain and gratitude. Buy two books. One to keep and one to give away. You will be glad you did. Then let the conversations begin among girlfriends, mothers and daughters, lovers, husbands and wives, brothers and sisters. Let the shame and rage go. Know your own beauty. Answer the questions yourself. What do you love about your body? What frustrates you? How have you supported your body? Then you can sing a song of your own courage, grace and beauty. Amen.
Lives captured with outstanding photography and excellent writing April 14, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book presents high quality, thoughtful and tasteful images accompanied by sparse, tight autobiographic narratives. Ms. Olson meshes the two wonderfully, each half telling a part of the story.
I've greatly enjoyed reading one or two pages before setting off to do something else, and finding myself thinking back as if I'd just met someone really interesting.
This is a superb book about people - REAL people. It is a quality hardback, with top-notch printing and photo reproduction. It has already earned a spot in my "permanent" collection-- those books I go back to for enjoyment and inspiration time and time again.
This Book Will Change Lives April 10, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book will change women's lives. And it that way, change men's lives.
Working with women for over 25 years individually and in group, as a psychotherapist, I have already seen this begin to happen in my own practice. This vitally important book sits in my office for all to read. And as women hold the book, viewing the intimate, sensitive, beautiful portraits and reading the stories of self-image, their own reactions are profound. The combination of stark and authentic beauty, both in picture and story, moves women safely into their own consideration of themselves and their body image...to consider and re-consider how they have been considering themselves for years. Often unconsciously. And they begin to be kind to themselves.
It is a most beautiful book to behold, both inside and out. In addition to it's presence in my office as an option for clients to view, I have given over eight copies to friends, nieces, physicians and colleagues. And will continue to buy and give.
Each of us could have a picture and story here. Rosanne Olson has given a gift to the world.
A glimmering work of HOPE April 9, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I had the pleasure of attending Rosanne's book reading and signing party in Seattle lastnight. Looking through the book before she got up to speak, I realized that everyone has their own story, and that people might not be so obsessed with my own (horrible) body image as I think they are. I realized that maybe my husband really does mean it when he tells me I'm beautiful--that he's not just saying it to make me feel better. I applaud the author for her courage to do this project, and to share a bit of herself with others. The courage of these women to be in the book--I applaud them too.
This is a true masterpiece, that every woman and frankly--all men too--needs to read, if for nothing but a SIGNIFICANT reminder that beauty comes in all shapes and sizes. This book has impacted so many levels of my thinking. I challenge anyone reading this to let yourself be transformed. I know I was.
Beauty outside and in! April 5, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I first saw Rosanne's photos in More magazine last year - beautiful, powerful and healing. I was visiting Seattle so my sister and I scheduled a photo session with Rosanne in her attic studio over looking Lake Washington on a sunny June afternoon. Exciting and scary, bold and shy, empowering and intimidating. I've been looking forward to finally seeing her book and it arrive yesterday (we are not in it). I cried as I read the thoughts and feeling of the women - painful and proud, reflecting the complex feelings I have about my own body. I'm ordering copies for my 3 sisters, mother and niece, plus sharing it with friends. I've never written a review for an Amazon book before but I couldn't help myself. This book is a beautiful experience and I wanted to share its power with others.
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