dc.contributor.author | Hammond, Kelsey | eng |
dc.contributor.meetingname | Body Project (1st : 2008 : Columbia, Missouri) | eng |
dc.date.issued | 2008 | eng |
dc.description | This photographic collection was displayed during the course of the conference. | eng |
dc.description | Abstract of a presentation given at the 2008 Body Project conference at the University of Missouri-Columbia. | eng |
dc.description.abstract | I started my large nude series to challenge conventional media-driven standards of beauty and show that the large body is also beautiful. The work falls into two distinct areas: in one set, my self-portraits are abstract details of the abundantly fleshy body; in the other, my self-portraits include more of my personal identity, creating a more contemplative, and complete, picture of my body. ... My original intent in this figure study was to challenge media-driven standards of beauty by showing an overweight body as being beautiful; I have since realized I need to challenge my own standards first to allow myself to feel beautiful. I photograph my own body, daring myself to feel comfortable with other people viewing me as well as really looking at myself. I am forcing myself to become the observer, as well as the observed. I have begun to feel more at home in my body, able to see it as simultaneously terrifying and beautiful. | eng |
dc.format.extent | 2 pages | eng |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10355/393 | eng |
dc.language | English | eng |
dc.publisher | The Body Project | eng |
dc.relation.ispartofcollection | University of Missouri--Columbia. Graduate Student Association. The Body Project | eng |
dc.rights | OpenAccess | eng |
dc.rights.license | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License. | |
dc.subject | media-driven standards | eng |
dc.subject | personal identity | eng |
dc.subject | self-portraits | eng |
dc.subject.lcsh | Photography of the nude | eng |
dc.subject.lcsh | Obesity in art | eng |
dc.subject.lcsh | Body image in art | eng |
dc.title | Large nudes [abstract] | eng |
dc.type | Abstract | eng |
dc.type | Presentation | eng |