Beauty Or A Beast?

Posted on 04. Feb, 2009 in Bizarre and Odd, Featured

These images are of German photographer Ivonne Thein and part of the exhibition “32 kilos” of the Goethe Institute in Washington. They have generated much discussion. According to the author, the photographs are a critical to the standard of beauty of body lean and not very healthy. In general, the feeling that this type of image is concerned with amazement.

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But the images are viewed with admiration by the participating communities pro-anorexia (pro-ana). There are many communities and blogs on the Internet that bring together “practitioners” of anorexia and bulimia, the majority women. In these areas, people report their problems, their goals are, show your menu low in calories with pride and to teach some techniques to lose weight at any cost. If you give a quick search at Google with “thinspo” (a combination of English words for thinness and inspiration) will find many photos similar to these.

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Do you think this type of picture is critical to our current standard of beauty or on the contrary it influences people and rises their expectations when it comes to models and how they should look like. They are less and less realistic and it’s no longer a thing connected only with the runway. Whenever I turn on my TV I have the feeling that the actors are getting more and more skinny, such as Ally McBill for example.What is so attractive in that alien and unreal look?

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31 Comments

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Somebody

05. Feb, 2009

F-ing repulsive. Those shoes look way too uncomfortable.

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Bob

07. Feb, 2009

Damn, ‘d like to blow that doll up..

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04. Apr, 2009

I like so much this kind of girl, I love skinny

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jason

09. Jul, 2009

nastyness

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noooway

17. Jul, 2009

come on!!! this is no human this is just bones, i dont understand why people are like this. just be healthy not skinny comeon

it breaks my heart to see what people do to eachother and themself

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Jenean

19. Jul, 2009

Bone is for the dog, Meat is for the man

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Abi

24. Jul, 2009

i would |ove to be skiny but not anerexic and im only 12

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Sonja

10. Sep, 2009

Is that a real human being?? Not some sculpture or a wax figure?? Seriously??

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Cris

11. Sep, 2009

These women look disgusting. If only they could look at themselves and see how sick they look.

For christ’s sake.. eat a burger!

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loveana

15. Sep, 2009

she looks perfect. and YES im serious i:

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Fakkyuu

19. Sep, 2009

I think she is beautiful. I wish I looked like that…

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Tony

21. Sep, 2009

I can’t believe that a person would want to look like the women pictured. Especially the top picture. I never in all my days would imagine that some folks would find the Malnourished look attractive. Distgusting!!! Puke!!

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Dayzdukes

28. Sep, 2009

The malnourished “look” goes hand in hand with a body that will shut down sooner than you think. I have sympathy for these lost girls and their loved ones who are sadly watching them wither away.

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Ruby

30. Sep, 2009

I wonder what their faces look like =-o

The pictures are too much photoshoped ^^

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Bindash

05. Oct, 2009

the last wonder of the world

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Steve

13. Oct, 2009

What is this Non-Sense … Still humans are living for Opposite Sex … R u Dry Fish or Human Fish …
Who ask u to become like this ?
Ur boy Friend ,Ur Ambitiion , Ur Country or Ur Own Wishes ..

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coouurt

17. Oct, 2009

they have wigs b/c when your body is that malnourished you do not have pretty, shiny, touchable hair. These women need honest to god medical help and my heart goes out to them. It is also wrong of the photographer to encourage or enable this sort of self destructive behaviour.

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heheeheh

21. Oct, 2009

areeeeeee

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reso

01. Nov, 2009

poor girls, bad society and persons who make them become like this :((
they must eat or they’ll die :’(

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joysangkar

08. Nov, 2009

what is she,s past history

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Anon

04. Dec, 2009

I think a lot of you are missing the point. The question was whether or not this tactic encourages that standard or thwarts it. For me, it’s eye-opening. Knowing what is going through the heads of these women who aspire to look that skinny is important. If a woman can look at these photographs and honestly say that they aspire to be that skinny, I think they already have a problem and it’s not being encouraged by the photos, just realized. I think it’s important to show the reality of the world through photograph.

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Biz

20. Dec, 2009

horrific art indeed.

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M4L4K1T3

20. Dec, 2009

anyone else find it wrong that this page is also filled with weight loss adverts?

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Thaman Chhetri

22. Dec, 2009

uhhh lalalala

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me

31. Dec, 2009

first off i would def bang that…lol..no she is way to skinny..but she prob does it to get the photo jobs..we need to change a lot b4 these woman can be saved…sec..yes it bothers me that there is weight loss advertising on this page ,but do you really think anyone cares that own’s the site?…it’s money in there pocket..the beauty of the net you don’t have to be that responsible for what you write,print or say….

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Vincent

02. Jan, 2010

I am thoroughly disgusted. I am upset by these photographs, and repulsed that anyone would want to look like that. I hurt all over, thinking about what it’d be like to be that skinny. Ugh.

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ladida

07. Jan, 2010

im honestly jealous
they look perfect

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random

12. Jan, 2010

It’s pretty obvious that these photos have been photoshopped. Seriously, look at their hands. If they were really that thin their hands and feet would be bonier then that.

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ali

16. Jun, 2010

Beauty.

Because it is simplistic, refined, modern, the clean look of the minimalist essential. It is pure and untainted, unburden, unweighted… free in every sense of the word, from the boundaries of the sorted human plaque. in a great sense, she who is portrayed is the emancipated in her own emaciation… she is beautiful in her emptiness because she has proven herself to be worthy… free from the carnal clauses that enslave us to the mortal word. she become goddess in this way… she becomes the ideal that the world stands in awe of, because she has attained the unattainable through her benevolent sacrifice of self, in the great sacrament of penance for her own mortality… she claim the finite immortality of the refined beauty that she becomes. she becomes the artist that has taken charge over her own reality to create the portrait of the pure vessel of her own truth, stripped away from the excessive embodiment… she is free. in life, in death… she is perfect. weightless…. she becomes like the stoic nature of the spiritual… of the butterfly after it unravels of its cocoon. immaculate. inspiration for the future of all generations is she.

:)

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Jewellz

18. Jun, 2010

I think that people who do or say they want to be like this need some help.There is a problem with this it slowly and painfully kills you and the hearts of your family and friends.I don’t see why anyone would want to do this.But if they do I think that they should have the right to do what they choose.I do find myself worrying about my weight but would never go that extreme or close to it.To everyone who thinks this is right and everyone who thinks this is wrong should be able to think what they want without being judged or told to beleive otherwise because you are your own person not somebodys little pupet that gets told what to do by everyone else.And I definately do not mean to affend anyone and sorry if I have in anyway. :)

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