I personally found this book to be voyeuristic and unoriginal. Granted, as a photographer, I can appreciate Greenfield's ability to capture sound shotI personally found this book to be voyeuristic and unoriginal. Granted, as a photographer, I can appreciate Greenfield's ability to capture sound shots. As a human being, though, I find Thin to be distasteful in concept, or at the very least naïve. Before you jump to conclusions about what I mean by that (it's tempting, I know, I really do understand), allow me to explain exactly what I mean.
My problem is not a simple objection to graphic material. I believe as much as any other proponent of free press that truth is important, and that some things must be expressed in the raw. Take one glance through my shelves and you'll see that I read/view plenty of graphic material, ranging from illustrated forensic science texts to vivid memoirs of trauma and illness. I am all for the honest portrayal of eating disorder treatment experiences (generally speaking as well as for personal reasons).
But I'm sick of this stereotypically formatted story being told the same way again and again. It's a classic tabloid churn-out by now: The-Generic-Journalistic-Piece-About-Anorexia� featuring prominent images of emaciated upper-class white women weeping over plates of food or strapped to feeding tubes, staring wistfully into space. The writing of the patients was limited to fairly basic chronology, lists of symptoms and behaviors, and height-and-weight information that in my opinion served no purpose beyond shock value. Textual sections were honestly easy to skip altogether, situated as blocks of small font beside full-page color photographs.
I believe this work could have been far more meaningful, as well as far more responsible (toward the patients and toward the eating-disorder-affected population likely to consume Greenfield's work), if the journalistic focus were pointed away from the physical starving, scarred bodies and toward the human beings living inside them....more
This book. Oh, boy. This book. I could go on for days. How to Be an Explorer of the World by Keri Smith is about seeing the world; it is about listeniThis book. Oh, boy. This book. I could go on for days. How to Be an Explorer of the World by Keri Smith is about seeing the world; it is about listening and observing and collecting and searching for the stories of all the small/lost/broken/misplaced/misunderstood pieces of the world. It can be read on many different levels- cute activity book versus intense philisophical experience- all of which are delightful. The layout of each page, and the text, and the EVERYTHING-
Chopsticks is at once an independent film, a dark melody, and a love story. Sharply composed photography cast in that ghostly evening-in-June light anChopsticks is at once an independent film, a dark melody, and a love story. Sharply composed photography cast in that ghostly evening-in-June light and fleeting snatches of text compose this masterpiece. It will suck you in, haunting you from the first page to the final dissonant notes....more
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