User:Bwilson3853/gap analysis

Gap analysis

 * What is the title of the article in which you identified a gap. If no article exists at all, what should the title be?

Laurie Toby Edison


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Though Laurie Toby Edison has a Wikipedia page, it leaves gaps in important parts of Edison’s influences, main objectives, and background. The article requires additional citations and utilizes too many primary sources when trying to explain Edison’s life. I found Edison while researching queer artists that encompass a marginalized groups of people. The article says nothing about queer and queer feminism which greatly limits the knowledge of the reader because it can eliminate valuable connections to other queer art and artists. This isolation is disadvantageous not only to Edison but to the queer feminism community that had benefited from her art. From the heteronormative gaze, this sort of abjection of queer is normal and is a form of institutionalized sexism. Another major influence that was left out was how impactful the Holocaust was on her youth. One of the largest effects on her photography could be traced back to her reaction of seeing other deathly skinny Jews in her community with tattoos from the concentration camps or seeing photos of naked corpses stacked high. This absence of information is a sign of US-centric thinking. The notion that only things in America are prominent and matter. The previous writers did not take in a transnational approach but rather a narrow scope into the art of Laurie Toby Edison in the US context. Lastly, Edison was an avid ableist and agist activist and the article had nothing to say on this. Edison was more than a fat body image photographer. Edison was a queer feminist artist and activist.


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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 (Familiar 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.”[1] 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.[2]
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Laurie Toby Edison (born 1942) is an internationally exhibited portrait photographer, queer activist, and feminist. (rest of paragraph the same)

Edison was born and raised in New York City, raised in a family of artists and designers. She was Jewish and the effects of World War II and the Holocaust greatly impacted her style of art. In the 1970’s, feminism became a prominent part of her thinking and she moved to San Francisco. As a photographer, she was able to employ art in a way that was both aesthetically expressive and promoted queer activism. (rest of paragraph)

INFLUENCES

Laurie Toby Edison was born as the world slipped into the Second World War and as a Jew in New York City, this had a substantial impact on her art, activism, and medium. As a child, an effect on her photography can be traced back to her reaction of seeing black and white photos of corpses stacked upon each other as a result of the Nazi concentration camps. Edison was also born bisexual which gave her an abnormal upbringing in 20th century America that gave her a different perspective. In 1989, she was inspired by fat acceptance and size movements to photograph fat nudes. This began the expanse of her queer structure. She advocated for people to accept their body image and take power of it. Her photography especially highlights how fatness not a burden and can be beautiful. Though, she also incorporates ableism and ageism as she photographs elderly people and disabled people. In 1996, Edison and Notkin traveled to Japan and was able to look at body image outside the Western context. This experience was the basis in Edison’s collections of Familiar men and Women in Japan.

***THIS IS MY VERSION*** Moore, Lisa Jean, and Mary Kosut. The Body Reader: Essential Social and Cultural Readings. New York: New York UP, 2010. Print.
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Braziel, Jana Evans, and Kathleen LeBesco. Bodies out of Bounds: Fatness and Transgression. Berkeley: U of California, 2001. Print.

Chastain, Ragen. The Politics of Size: Perspectives from the Fat Acceptance Movement. Print.

Notkin, Debbie. "Body Image in Japan and the United States." Body Image in Japan and the United States 1st ser. 7.30 (2009). The Asia-Pacific Journal. Web. 17 Feb. 2016.

Corinne, Tee A. "Edison, Laurie Toby (b. 1942)." Edison, Laurie Toby (b. 1942) (2015). Http://www.glbtqarchive.com. Web. 17 Feb. 2016. .