The Full Body Project by Leonard Nimoy
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Gorgeous photoshoot from 2007 of beautiful fat women — burlesque performers at the Fat Bottom Revue, a fat burlesque troupe in San Francisco. I’ve seen a few of these photos before, but wanted to have them together. I am SO pleased with the eye of the photos (and also critical that these photos of fat women were the first and only in his collection, and specifically only after critic that he only shoots women he described as “classic” in his artist statement…).
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“They will tell you that too many people suffer because the body they live in is not the body you find in the fashion magazines.”
I think it beautiful and radical the honesty of this statement in light of the fact that their current photographer had and was contributing to the truth of that.
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The most beautiful thing about this photoshoot to me is the tangible joy and togetherness of it all. These are women who are fat, who are friends, coworkers, performers, storytellers, anthropologists, actors, filmmakers. They danced and laughed and posed together fully as themselves with no concealment, a true testament to their own integrity and power. Nimoy said “I asked them to be proud, which was a condition they took to easily, quite naturally.”
YES FAT WOMEN! YES FAT WOMEN YES FAT WOMEN! YES FAT WOMEN!
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Closing with a quote from the founder of Fat Bottom Revue, Heather MacAllister
“Any time there is a fat person onstage as anything besides the butt of a joke, it’s political. Add physical movement, then dance, then sexuality and you have a revolutionary act.” —Heather MacAllister
