Desi Lydic

It's also, not only will you feel strong looking through these photos, but you actually will physically get strong.

Build that upper body strength.

We have those.

We can put them up, yeah.

Oh yes, slight blurs.

Shimamanda wrote a beautiful passage.

Both of them wrote beautiful pieces for this book.

I just want to reference in the Showgirls series what was so spectacular about that.

When you look at the photos, they're side by side.

You have the woman, you have the showgirl in her makeup and her costuming and the version that she presents to the world, and then you have the authentic version of her.

Both are beautiful.

I would argue that the authentic is more intriguing.

And that was the series that made you think, oh, this could actually be a book.

That's right.

Yeah.

And you also shot an incredible photograph of Michelle Obama.

It was beautiful, very free, very liberating photo.

And then one of your favorites from what I understand is the photograph of your mom.

Yeah.

And I also love that you said that, you know, she was sort of the life of the party and bubbly and charismatic.