page_title: Matuschka
section_title: Reconstruction
hierarchical_section_title: Matuschka / Reconstruction
caption_attribution_description: English: A work from the book Bagit! drawn from a J. Crew bag
context_page_description: Matuschka, birth name Joanne Motichka is a New York City photographer, artist, author, activist, and model. Her self-portrait on the Sunday cover of New York Times magazine in 1993 was chosen by LIFE for a special edition entitled 100 Photographs that Changed the World published in 2003 and again in 2011. The artist has been nominated for many awards, including a Pulitzer Prize, and has received dozens of citations, honors, and distinctions for her photographic works and activism since the early 90s. In 2012 Matuschka appeared in Rose Hartman's book Incomparable Women of Style, and in 2011 John Loengard included her in his monograph: The Age of Silver: Encounters with Great Photographers.
context_section_description: Matuschka began breast reconstruction in 2013, 22 years after her mastectomy operation, using a new system: the Brava /Fat Grafting Method, which was experimental and has not been approved by the FDA at this time.
   This procedure required 6 hospitalizations and the use of the external Brava apparatus with extensive fat grafting over a three-year period. The reconstruction, which started in 2013, was completed in 2016. CBS News Sunday Morning (with Martha Teichner) aired a special with the artist on September 23, 2013, entitled The Model and the Mastectomy.
caption: A work from the book Bagit! using a shopping bag and abstract art (1975 and 2006)
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