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Laurie Toby Edison (born 1942) is an internationally exhibited portrait photographer. Her three suites of photographs include a series of nude environmental portraits of fat women (''Women En Large''), a series of nude environmental portraits of a very diverse cross-section of men ((Men'' )), and a series of clothed environmental portraits of women living in Japan (''(Women of Japan )''). Edison's work is black-and-white fine art photography, with an underlying social change message, which she often phrases as "making the invisible visible.” Edison is Jewish. She was born and raised in New York City, raised in a family of artists and designers. She and her writing partner Debbie Notkin blog about body image and related topics at Body Impolitic. She has two daughters, one a dance choreographer and the other a biotechnology scientist. She’s a long-time resident of San Francisco, and lives in the Mission District. ==Publications and Exhibitions== She has published two black-and-white fine art photography books: Women En Large: Images of Fat Nudes (1994); and (Familiar Men: A Book of Nudes ) (2004). (Women of Japan ), a suite of clothed portraits of women in Japan, from many Japanese cultures and backgrounds, was completed in 2007. Photographs have been exhibited in Japan, China and the US, and was included in an exhibition in Shenyang, China in 2014. A retrospective of one hundred of her photographs “Meditations on the Body: Recent Work” was exhibited at the National Museum of Art in Osaka in 2001.〔National Museum of Art — “Meditations on the Body: Recent Works” (100 photographs from Familiar Men, Women of Japan, and Women En Large), Osaka, Japan, August –September 2001〕 Her photographs have also been exhibited around the world, including New York City, Tokyo, Kyoto, Toronto, Boston, London, Shanghai, Beijing, Seoul, Budapest, and San Francisco. The complete ''Women of Japan'' project was shown at the Pacifico Convention Center in Yokohama in the fall of 2007. Edison has photographs in the permanent collections of Gallery Fleur, Kyoto Seika University, and the National Museum of Art, Osaka. The National Museum included six of her photographs in their 35th anniversary exhibition, ''The Allure of the Collection'', in 2012. A documentary about her work by John Wells is available on YouTube. Among the dozens of articles about her work are a feature in NY Arts/Berliner Kunst by Lori Don Levan (May–June 2004); "Beautiful Men”, an article in English and Spanish by Laurie Toby Edison and Debbie Notkin, with 14 photographs from ''Familiar Men'', in ''Corpus'', Vol 3 No 1, 2005; and an essay on ''Women of Japan'' with accompanying photographs, in ''Kyoto Journal: Perspectives From Asia'' (Spring 2006).〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Laurie Toby Edison」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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