BOOK (US shipping): Female Beauty – A Celebration of the Feminine, 2019, 800 pages

The book contains Mathilde Grafström’s famous photo art of naturally naked women - taken in the middle of nature.

The 800-page photo book in A4 format contains the most important images Mathilde has taken in the 6 years she has photographed women. The book presents 60 selected models that are ordinary women, with bodies in every imaginable form - all surprisingly beautiful!

The idea of the project is to show that all women can be beautiful, if just they let go of the negative self-image and arrive to their natural and happy state of being.

Acknowledgments of the art project

- The project has been very successful, and the pictures have been seen by an estimated 56 million people in more than 30 countries (please see the media list in the book).

- Minister for Culture Bertel Haarder has recommended her art and opened her large exhibition at Nytorv in 2016. This was a turning point for the project, because the official support put an end to the danish police censorship.

- The Royal Danish Embassy in Tokyo sponsored Mathilde’s exhibition in Tokyo. The Ambassador acknowledges in a letter of support to the Japanese Mathilde’s importance for Danish photo art and the human value of the project.

About the book:

The book has 80 pages introduction about Mathilde’s life as an art photographer (mostly in Danish). Then follows 720 pages with photos.

In the introduction, you find Mathilde’s story about her project and its many controversies followed by short reviews of her major exhibitions in Denmark and abroad.

From the beginning, Mathilde felt the devastating consequences of a negative self-image on her own body. She also met many other women who were troubled by a strong negative self-image, giving low self-confidence and self-esteem, in spite of being obviously beautiful.

The negative consequences of the negative thinking Mathilde is fighting is anxiety, depression and sometimes the ultimate consequence of self-hatred: suicide.

Mathilde says that to be happy in our life we need to learn to love ourselves as we are!

The art project has a dramatic history. For years, the Police banned her exhibitions, which was found “indecent”. Only in March 2019 has it been possible for Mathilde to exhibit her nude pictures in the center of Copenhagen, at the pedestrian street, totally without censorship.

Several analysts from the media have concluded that the Female Beauty project has pushed the Danish societies limit on how much nudity can be accepted in the public space: Thus this art project has already had an important cultural significance.

In the book Mathilde tells about the powerful reactions of the audience to her completely uncensored nude pictures, as many of her exhibitions was destroyed by vandalism.

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