Photograph of Heather Graham by David LaChapelle.
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My name is Elizabeth Tamny. GenX-er involved in size acceptance in diff ways since c. 10 B.I. [Before Internet].
This blog is about issues of size as and when I see and am interested in them, which can mean size acceptance, media, clothing, language, art, movies . . . whatevs. Good, bad, infuriating, beautiful. A scrapbook.
My other blog is here. Note: postings earlier than 2/6/10 are from that blog.
My other blog is here. Note: postings earlier than 2/6/10 are from that blog.
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Other published writings on size
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About Me
- Elizabeth M. Tamny
- Cranky/idealistic media consumer in Chicago.
Du beurre! Donnez-moi du beurre! Toujours du beurre! - Fernand Point
L'amour, l'amour. Toujours l'amour! - La Comtesse De Lave
I'm not really sure how I feel about her deer caught in headlights eyes. Or any of it. Or...something.
ReplyDeleteMe either! Just puttin it out there.
ReplyDeleteSo, now that I've been lookin at it for a week:
ReplyDelete- Yah, the photog definitely (esp when you look at other photos in the series) is trying to work a circus freak angle. I just don't think he's totally successful at making the two women on the outside looking so much like the other. Or else I'm disinclined to see them how I'm "supposed" to--but still. They don't look so weird. They look cute. Heather Graham is the Other in this photo, to be honest (if you me). Not because thin people aren't cute too (!) just that, you know - the power she has in this photo basically comes from her celebrity and little else. Those other women are 75% of what we're looking at.
I'm really interested in how Fat shows up in media images, period. What meaning it's accorded. So I'd never put up a really offensive image, but it wasn't chosen really as a Yay! Fatties! gesture either. Was curious, as ever, about the intersection of fat & meaning.