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Language
  
English

Publication date
  
October 31, 1994

ISBN
  
1-885495-00-5

Author
  
Laurie Toby Edison

Genre
  
Fine-art photography

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Publisher
  
Books in Focus

Pages
  
116

Originally published
  
31 October 1994

Page count
  
116

Country
  
United States of America

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Media type
  
Print (Trade Paperback)

Followed by
  
Familiar Men: A Book of Nudes

Similar
  
Familiar Men: A Book of N, The Body Impolitic, Shadow on a Tightrope, Full Body Project

Women En Large: Images of Fat Nudes by Laurie Toby Edison, with text by Debbie Notkin, was published in 1994 by Books in Focus. The book is a fine-art photography book of nudes of fat women. It contains 41 black-and-white photographs and two essays by Notkin, plus an artist's statement by Edison and an assortment of work (poetry, songs, quotations) by the women in the photographs.

Tracy Young, reviewing the book in Allure magazine, said, "Like painter Lucian Freud's monumental nudes of performance artist Leigh Bowery... the nude women in Women En Large have a certain majesty, the unabashedness of Henry Moore sculptures. They have escaped. And they're enough to convince you that clothes, not flesh, are what makes fat people look diminished."

Photographs from Women En Large have been shown in New York, Tokyo, Kyoto, Toronto, Boston, London, St. Petersburg, Beijing, Seoul, Budapest, and San Francisco.

References

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