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Where did “The Full Body Project” come from?

I was doing a seminar with some earlier work, and a lady in the audience came up and said, “I’m a model, and I’m a different body type than what you’ve been working with. Would you be interested in working with me?” I discussed it with my wife, who is very much involved in what I do and very much involved in contemporary art — she’s a trustee at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. She encouraged me to go ahead and do it. I was concerned with how to photograph this kind of figure because I simply was not used to it. I shot her in black-and-white. I was quite satisfied with what I got, because I thought she looked like a marble sculpture in black-and-white.

I began to become conscious of this question of body size and body image in our culture. I became more aware of what we’re bombarded with in magazines, newspapers and television commercials — “Lose 10 pounds in three weeks! Eat and be thin!” It’s incredible if you stop and think about it. I found this burlesque group in San Francisco called the Fat-Bottom Review. I made arrangements to photograph them in San Francisco and then again in Los Angeles.

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