About the Book

"This book of photographs celebrates the strength and beauty of women who have survived beast cancer. Beautifully poignant poetry and vignettes... The powerful effect of this book is exhilarating. The book is necessary and encouraging for cancer survivors, their loved ones and others who challenge themselves in life."

Art Myers' Inspiration for publishing this book

I am still haunted by the memory of the phone call from my mother telling me in a trembling voice that my sister Joanne, still in her thirties, had been diagnosed with breast cancer. Following a prolonged heroic battle to survive she was to eventually die from the disease. Two decades later I anxiously faced a surgeon in a hospital waiting room as he uttered the dreaded words, "Your wife has breast cancer."

I was not prepared for the overwhelming effect that breast cancer in two close family members would have on my life. I learned that anxiety about survival, initially the most important worry, can give way later to a new unease both in the survivor and her partner. The woman may begin to cover her nakedness fearing a spouse's averted glance, or turn away from the reflection in a mirror that constantly reminds her of fears of diminished femininity. A partner withdraws a hand to avoid touching a scar where once was a graceful curve. Lovers draw apart, an absent breast now a barrier to their intimacy. I undertook this photographic project hoping to show that a woman's fundamental nature is not dependent on anything external; that the loss of part or all of her breast is not a threat to her essential being. I hope that these pictures, personal vignettes about the women, and poems created especially for this book, will reveal the persistence of a woman's beauty, strength and femaleness in all of its complexity, even after the transforming experience of breast cancer.

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How to purchase Winged Victory: Altered Images: Transcending Breast Cancer

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