The Scar Project, whose aim is to raise awareness about breast cancer survivors, is vaster than black and white photos of topless women. “On the surface an awareness raising campaign for young women, the Scar Project’s deeper message is one of humanity” (The Scar Project, 2011). “Ultimately, The Scar Project is not about breast cancer, but the human condition itself” (The Scar Project, 2011). The Scar Project displays many pictures of women who have had to confront cancer, mastectomies and breast disfigurement. Body language, the intensity of a glare and even highlights and shadows express the two women depicted as communicative bodies (see figures 1& 2). In these two images, the photographer, David Jay, utilizes light, emotions and women in the raw form to convey Arthur Frank’s concept of the communicative body.
In Arthur Frank’s The Wounded …show more content…
One can conclude that these two women are breast cancer survivors that are not ashamed to display their mastectomy scars and deformity caused by cancer. Both of the attached images are very powerful and convey similar meanings, although the poses differ (see figures I & II). Figure I is clearly a communicative body by the way she is positioned and how her arms are wide above her shoulders (see figure I). She does not strain to cover herself or her scar but encourages the audience to look at her and observe the physical remnants left by her battle with breast cancer (see figure I). The woman in figure I is completely associated with herself and her physical being by establishing that she is not afraid to bare her body and disfiguration. The image demonstrates no difference between disease and body. Thus, displaying the idea of accepted contingency. When a communicative body is connected with itself, it accepts that life is prone to sickness and misfortune because the body does not separate it’s health and being from
In Arthur Frank’s The Wounded …show more content…
One can conclude that these two women are breast cancer survivors that are not ashamed to display their mastectomy scars and deformity caused by cancer. Both of the attached images are very powerful and convey similar meanings, although the poses differ (see figures I & II). Figure I is clearly a communicative body by the way she is positioned and how her arms are wide above her shoulders (see figure I). She does not strain to cover herself or her scar but encourages the audience to look at her and observe the physical remnants left by her battle with breast cancer (see figure I). The woman in figure I is completely associated with herself and her physical being by establishing that she is not afraid to bare her body and disfiguration. The image demonstrates no difference between disease and body. Thus, displaying the idea of accepted contingency. When a communicative body is connected with itself, it accepts that life is prone to sickness and misfortune because the body does not separate it’s health and being from