- ISBN13: 9781604021318
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The Faces behind Breast Cancer is an artistic pictorial depicting the courage, strength and dignity of male and female breast cancer patients during all stages of treatment, recovery and remission.
The photographs and testimonies represent a diverse, cross-section of cancer survivors and capture the unique essence of each individual's cancer journey with honesty and compassion. The book is also a stunning tribute to the human spirit.... More >>
The Faces behind Breast Cancer
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This book is a wonderful inspiration of the power of the human spirit seen through poignant images of individuals at various stages of breast cancer. The composition of the black and white photographs in The Faces Behind Breast Cancer provides us with an artistic expression of timelessness. Each individual picture, along with the limited use of text, brings a breadth and depth that humanizes breast cancer in a profoundly personal and spiritual way that binds the reader towards action. We see each person’s story as “our story”, and we feel a sense of oneness with the story. We also feel the author’s message of hope, and we are drawn to fight for a cure.
Rating: 5 / 5
This beautiful book of portraits is a primer on empathy and connection. Its large-format photographs, printed in burnished black and white, allow me to look deeply into–and study–the faces of people who have been profoundly ill. The text is minimal, restricted to the sitter’s first name and a brief quote. At first, this puzzled me. I’m part of an information-intense culture and I wanted more. But I’d missed the point of the book: contemplation. As a Catholic born and bred, I grew up looking at the calm and lovely face of the Virgin Mary. As I grew older, the religion dropped away, but my love of the contemplative face remained. I look for it everywhere, surrounding myself with madonnas, buddhas, shivas, saints. Like the saints in art, the men and women in this book are almost all presented with attributes, items they chose for themselves as identifiers, items that say, ‘This is who I am.’ Think of St. Francis with his birds, or St. Peter with his key. In the book the attributes include a book, a rose, a boot, a motorcycle, a tennis racket, a child, a dog, a rosary. No, these people aren’t saints. But they have passed through the fire and survived–suffered more than I have ever suffered, and by looking deeply into their beautiful faces, I begin to feel their strength and resilience. I feel connected to them. These total strangers begin to look to me like a reflection in the mirror, of myself. Each calm, glowing face becomes my own.
Rating: 5 / 5