Birth Undisturbed
Standard Edition (10 x 8")
by Natalie Lennard
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About the Book
From the Queen to Calamity Jane, to the Black Mother of the ancient ocean, enjoy super-close detail of these cinematic photographs all created meticulously on location, with prosthetics, models, and no AI.
Witness the pride of a blood-splattered Eve, a Muslim family in hospital, and most controversially, Virgin Mary roaring out Christ.
Legendary birth writers such as Michel Odent, Grantly Dick-Read and Ina May Gaskin are exploded into visuals for all to learn about.
Deeply seeded from Natalie Lennard’s own experience of loss and motherhood, Birth Undisturbed has won two awards, brought a foray into filmmaking and seen extensive press and uproar, for a series the artist thought would end her career.
This 54-page book, printed on Premium Lustre paper, includes a candid 6-page introduction in the artist’s own words, detailing the inspiration, struggles, and even the shattered delusions through the five-year making.
This book contains intimate nudity and graphic reenactment of birth which may be sensitive to some. Caution and parental guidance advised.
Features & Details
- Primary Category: Arts & Photography Books
- Additional Categories Parenting & Families, Fine Art Photography
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Project Option: Standard Landscape, 10×8 in, 25×20 cm
# of Pages: 54 -
Isbn
- Hardcover, Dust Jacket: 9781738550838
- Publish Date: Oct 18, 2024
- Language English
- Keywords art, photography, birth
About the Creator
Natalie Lennard (b. 1986) is a fine-art and commercial photographer whose work has been exhibited in the Saatchi Gallery and Houses of Parliament, featured by the BBC, El Pais and NY Arts, and whose commercial clients include Nikon, HTC and Guo Pei. 'Birth Undisturbed' is Lennard's first major project to focus on a biosocial topic, with documentary video accompaniment, striving to combine the rawness of childbirth into the art world and Western consciousness in an unprecedented way. Depicting births of icons from the Virgin Mary to Calamity Jane and the Queen, partly inspired by the artist's own experience of motherhood and birth, the series' timeliness is ever more appropriate in a global maternity crisis.