num_pages: 56
description: *There is a newer edition of this book--please click on 'See all formats and editions' above.*This new book of photographs of semi-nude women and their partners presents a remarkable portrait of breast cancer survivors, of which there are 1.6 million in the US. These photographic subjects are portrayed not as victims but as women of elegance, strength and sensuousness who have transcended their disease and resultant surgery. The women in the book range in age from their twenties to over eighty-three years. Accompanied by original poetry by Maria Marrocchino and subject written vignettes, these women redefine their breast missing, altered and reconstructed. As Dr. David Spiegel, the nationally recognized specialist in the therapy of women facing life-threatening illness notes in the foreword, "...they present their bodies and themselves with humor, sadness, vulnerability, honesty. They challenge us to look beyond what is missing, beneath the scar. They evoke of their beauty and their courage. They do not hide their loss, they transcend it."
language: English
title: Winged Victory: Altered Images : Transcending Breast Cancer
titlecomplete: Winged Victory: Altered Images : Transcending Breast Cancer
publisher: Photographic Gallery of Fine Art Books