Skeleton in the Closet: Eating Disordered Lives
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| Rating | : | 4.57 (860 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1491020784 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 102 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-04-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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Dan Lebryk said Incredible. When I received the email asking me to review this book, I almost didn't look further than the title. Skeleton in the Closet, this will be some kind of vampire emo romance novel again, why should I bother. I read a littler further, and discovered it was a book about eating disorders. I'm sorry, I understand there are a lot of people with this disease, but they are all well to do suburban females that are misunderstood by their parents and are simply acting out. Why do I want to read a book about the haves that choose to not eat? There was something more in the email that kept me thinking, the author sounded passionate about this. . A life-changing intimate portrait into the lives of everyday people who struggle with an eating disorder Cammi C. A life-changing intimate portrait into the lives of everyday people who struggle with an eating disorder. Skeleton In The Closet is a moving intimate book which combines gripping photographs with first-person stories. Artist Fritz Liedtke--who draws inspiration from his own struggle with anorexia, brings us these powerful portraits drawn from painful, candid, personal experiences. These bravely shared stories will transport you inside the minds of the exceptional subjects who live with and who have recovered from disordered eating. It's simplicity in engaging the reader while visually drawing them into the subject's experience mak. Grady Harp said Confessions and shared empathies. Fritz Liedtke is a professional photographer and artist whose museum quality work has gained him high ranking in the world of important contemporary artists. But Fritz Liedtke is also a humanitarian as this profoundly beautiful and sensitive book asserts. Before opening the windows on to the lives of the people he has studied, interviewed and photographed over the past eight years, each of whom is struggling with a life of eating disorders, he shares his own history of his conflict with anorexia - a brief though touching insight into the inner sanctum of people who share his dysfunction. The book then introduces a Foreword by Gina
His photographs--in vibrant, full color--are artful and humanizing, treating each subject in a unique and sensitive fashion. Amanda, posing in a cemetery, muses: "A hospital gown is a symbol for sickness, but to me it's a symbol of restored lifethat gown saved me from the grave." -Publishers Weekly reviewLiedtke's Skeleton in the Closet collects portraits of people who have suffered from eating disorders, each photograph accompanied by writing from the subjects. The accompanying text is often harrowing in its honest portrayal
Fritz Liedtke is an artist and professional photographer whose work has been shown internationally, is regularly published in books and magazines, and is collected into major museum collections, including The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, The Haggerty Museum of Art, and the Griffin Museum of Photography. . An award-winning photographer, he lives in Portland, Oregon, with his wife and daughter and their bright orange house
Artist Fritz Liedtke—who relates the story of his own struggle with anorexia in his introduction—has created an award-winning series that includes women and men of all ages and ethnicities. Prefaced with a moving essay by award-winning novelist Gina Ochsner, this beautiful fine art book challenges stereotypes, and offers insight and hope to anyone wanting to better understand life with an eating disorder and the challenge of overcoming addiction.. Combining compelling photographs and personal stories, it gives the reader a compassionate, first-person look inside the minds of those who live with and try to leave behind an eating disorder. Skeleton in the Closet’s intimate portraits of women and men struggling with the secrets of anorexia and bulimia is both fine art monograph and memoir