Breakfast with Rosanne Olson, photograher “This is who I am”
Apr 16th, 2008 by Brad
We met our good friend Rosanne Olson, Seattle photographer, for breakfast in the east village (image: Andrea (left), Rosanne(right)). Rosanne was in New York for a filming of Good Morning America to talk about her new book.
Her book is getting a lot of deserved attention. It is a wonderful book that is called “This Is Who I Am: Our Beauty in All Shapes and Sizes“. It has a photograph of each woman and their stories. It has 54 portraits of women of all ages (19 to 95) and from all over the country.
We had a great breakfast catching up on all kinds of things projects, art, Courbet exhibition, Whitney Biennial, Viktor Frankl, AIPAD, modes of expression, GMA filming, and life in general.
Rosanne’s empowering book that has beautiful photographs of these woman that are all sizes and shapes, ethnicities and experiences.
Hopefully you saw her on the Sunday April 13th “Good Morning America” along with five of the women in the book. Here are images on the Good Morning America website.
In Portland Oregon at “In Other Words Women’s Books and Resources”, you can see Rosanne in person on Saturday, April 19, 2008 2pm for a reading and book signing.
Location: 8 NE Killingsworth St
Portland, OR 97211
Tel: 503-232-6003
In Other Words website about the reading.
Rosanne writes:
My deepest wish for This is who I am–our beauty in all shapes and sizes is to start a communication among women and men. We have long been influenced by advertising to think that there is only one type of beauty, which few can achieve. But in truth, there are many kinds of beauty. I hope this book will be used in mother-daughter book clubs, in women’s studies programs, as gifts to our sisters, daughters, mothers. The other day a male friend called me to say that he had seen the book. He said he had never seen photographs of women such as this, as he was used to seeing photos of women stylized by men’s magazines. I hope this book will help open eyes and hearts. I hope the conversations will be of healing and compassion.
For the book’s website see:
www.bodyimagebook.com
