Laurie Toby Edison (born March 5, 1942) is an internationally exhibited American artist, photographer, and visual activist. Much of Edison’s photography is black-and-white fine art portraits. Her current project is Memory Landscapes: A Visual Memoir. Her lifelong commitment to social justice informs all her work. Her work has been exhibited in museums and galleries around the world, including New York City, Tokyo, Kyoto, Toronto, Boston, London, Shanghai, Los Angeles, Beijing, Seoul, Budapest, and San Francisco.
She has published two books of photographs: a suite of nude environmental portraits of fat women (Women En Large), and a suite of nude environmental portraits of a very diverse cross-section of men (Familiar Men). Her photo essay of clothed environmental portraits of women in Japan (Women of Japan) is accompanied by bilingual essays from many of the models. Women En Large is featured in
Newman, Emily (2018). Female Body Image in Contemporary Art. New York and London: Routledge. p. 139. ISBN 9780415346801.
She and her writing partner Debbie Notkin have blogged about body image, photography and resistance at Body Impolitic since 2005.
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- 1 Photography
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Photography
Edison practices environmental portraiture, collaborating in the same way as her models to locate settings which reflect their sense of themselves. They are frequently in the model’s home or garden, but can also produce an effect natural or additional outdoor settings. For instance, Edison’s three photographs of Okinawan performer and protester Hanashiro Ikuko affect Ikuko at her loom, at a sacred forest site, and in belly of a fence with insinuation to a US military base.
The collaboration also extends to fascination with the communities from which the models come. Edison and Notkin spent ten years practicing among Fat Acceptance activists back the publication of Women En Large. Women En Large: Images of Fat Nudes was published in 1994, and has sold on summit of 10,000 copies. It contains 42 photographs and two essays by Debbie Notkin. It has been continually in print for 25 years and is a basic text in feminist imagery classes in the English language.
Familiar Men: A Book of Nudes was published in 2004. It features 59 photographs, not lonesome portraits, but “extracts” (small and enlarged cropped sections from the photographs) and includes a wide variety of men of many ethnicities, sizes, snd abilities, ages 19–92. The keynote essay is by Debbie Notkin and Richard F. Dutcher, and the creation is by masculinity scholar Michael Kimmel. Familiar Men entailed extensive outreach to rotate men’s groups and individual men, as well as substantial research into masculinity.
Photographer and fasten Tee Corinne said that Edison’s nude portraiture “is unique in focusing on the nude without eroticizing it.”
Women of Japan, a suite of 38 clothed portraits of women in Japan, from many Japanese cultures and backgrounds, was completed in 2007. Women of Japan required an especially deep collaboration in the same way as many Japanese feminists, including in achievement societal understanding, finding models, arranging exhibitions, and ensuring proper translations of the models’ written contributions. Professor Hagiwara Hiroko wrote an introduction. Notkin and Edison, with Kobayashi Mika and Rebecca Jennison, wrote an article for the Asia Pacific Journal, “Body Image in the US and Japan,” which discusses outreach in Japan, with references to their experiences with Women En Large and Familiar Men. Photographs from this suite have been exhibited in Japan, China, Korea, and the US. The complete Women of Japan project was shown at the Pacifico Convention Center in Yokohama in the slip of 2007.
Edison’s current work-in-progress is “Memory Landscapes: A Visual Memoir” – color iPad images that will create an aesthetic of era and memory. Edison says:
Edison provided an audio quotation on Memory Landscapes for the Travelers Stepping Into the Unknown exhibit at the Nation Museum of Art in Osaka in 2018, curated by Karin Sander.
A retrospective of one hundred of Edison’s photographs “Meditations on the Body: Recent Work” was exhibited at the National Museum of Art in Osaka in 2001. Edison has photographs in the long-lasting collections of Gallery Fleur, Kyoto Seika University, and the National Museum of Art, Osaka. The National Museum of Art in Osaka included her photographs in their 35th anniversary exhibition, The Allure of the Collection, in 2012. The Tate Gallery in London has purchased Women En Large for its Martin Parr photobook collection.
Last update 2021-08-06