SynopsisThe photographs by Annie Leibovitz in Women , taken especially for the book, encompass a broad spectrum of subjects: a rap artist, an astronaut, two Supreme Court justices, farmers, coal miners, movie stars, showgirls, rodeo riders, socialites, reporters, dancers, a maid, a general, a surgeon, the First Lady of the United States, the secretary of state, a senator, rock stars, prostitutes, teachers, singers, athletes, poets, writers, painters, musicians, theater directors, political activists, performance artists, and businesswomen. "Each of these pictures must stand on its own," Susan Sontag writes in the essay that accompanies the portraits. "But the ensemble says, So this what women are now -- as different, as varied, as heroic, as forlorn, as conventional, as unconventional as this.", These new photographs of women, along with the first major essay written by Sontag in ten years, focus on 150 women, including Hillary Rodham Clinton, Eudora Welty, Martina Navratilova, Jerry Hall, Jodi Foster, Rosie O'Donnell, a Navajo weaver, and others.
LC Classification NumberTR681.W6L34 1999