Laurie Toby Edison, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
TweetLaurie Toby Edison
American artist
Date of Birth: 05-Mar-1942
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States
Profession: photographer
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Laurie Toby Edison
- Laurie Toby Edison (born March 5, 1942) is an internationally exhibited American artist, photographer, and visual activist.
- Much of Edison's photography is black-and-white fine art portraits.
- Her current project is Memory Landscapes: A Visual Memoir.
- Her lifelong commitment to social justice informs all her work.
- Her work has been exhibited in museums and galleries around the world, including New York City, Tokyo, Kyoto, Toronto, Boston, London, Shanghai, Los Angeles, Beijing, Seoul, Budapest, and San Francisco.She has published two books of photographs: a suite of nude environmental portraits of fat women (Women En Large), and a suite of nude environmental portraits of a very diverse cross-section of men (Familiar Men).
- Her photo essay of clothed environmental portraits of women in Japan (Women of Japan) is accompanied by bilingual essays from many of the models.
- Women En Large is featured in Newman, Emily (2018).
- Female Body Image in Contemporary Art.
- New York and London: Routledge.
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- 139.
- ISBN 9780415346801.She and her writing partner Debbie Notkin have blogged about body image, photography and resistance at Body Impolitic since 2005.
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