What happens when your face is no longer yours? How can you ever feel like a whole self again, when your face no longer represents you? Faces are one of the main ways that we humans form conceptions of ourselves, and they are our method of taking in sensory information, as well as communicating with each other.

Vulnerable Bodies: Pride and Shame in Amputee Portraits

Sula Malina

October 8th, 2014

"Amputee" - Paul Fiore

Photo of soldier on Remembrance Sunday (UK)

Temma on Earth by Tim Lowly

"Study of a Hero's Life" Vincent Desidario

The portraits I'll be discussing follow. They are all from the Anna Coleman Ladd papers at the Smithsonian.

Some food for thought! This article has been causing a media firestorm--it's the one we discussed in AD&A on Tuesday. 

"Why I hope to die at 75" Wake up and smell the ableism! >_<

so here it is:
Teju Cole, The White-Savior Industrial Complex. The Atlantic. March 21, 2012.
another, related, more recent one is
Accomplices, Not Allies: An Indigenous Perspective and Provocation. May 2, 2014.