false 2355371 1 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.<br><br> 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 <i>This Is Who I Am</i>. They are ordinary women only in the sense that none is a professional model. They are in all other ways extraordinary&#8212;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."<br> <br>Certainly, the feminine nude form is not new to artists and photographers. But the portraits in <i>This Is Who I Am</i>, taken by award-winning photographer Rosanne Olson, with a steady, unjudgmental eye, speak loudly to the American obsession of feminine perfection&#8212;slim hips and full breasts, high cheekbones and tiny waists, taut skin and eternal youth&#8212;and even more loudly to the way real women, with real bodies and real lives, look.<br><br>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. 2362096 1 4 2008 This Is Who I Am: Our Beauty in All Shapes and Sizes total:26|5:15|4:9|3:1|2:1|1:0| 26 116 62 17 4 2 false false Sun May 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed May 07 06:40:42 -0700 2008 Mon May 12 12:45:14 -0700 2008 This Is Who I Am presents a diverse group, with women of African, Asian, and Euro-American backgrounds, and autobiographical comments ra...more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue May 27 20:14:36 -0700 2008 Tue May 27 20:15:43 -0700 2008
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I originally got this book for ideas for when my honey and I take photos, but it turned out to be so much more than an idea book. There are photos of women of all shapes and sizes.

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