The women in this book include the anonymous, chief justices, strippers, aerospace engineers, athletes, scientists, and the First Lady. It is an anthology of women which culminates in a great portrait of women of all races and religions, at the end of the century. Each of the extraordinary portraits made by photographer Annie Leibovitz for her book Women stands on its own. Looked at together, these "photographs of people with nothing more in common than that they are women (and living in America at the end of the 20th century), all--well almost all--fully clothed", writes Susan Sontag in the book's preface, form "an anthology of destinies and disabilities and new possibilities." Leibovitz, who in her years working for Rolling Stone, Vogue and Vanity Fair magazines has photographed hundreds of celebrities, turns her lens on a wide range of ordinary and extraordinary female subjects: Coal miners, socialites, first ladies, artists, domestic-violence victims, an astronaut, a surgeon, a maid. What she creates is a reflection of contemporary American womanhood that mirrors both women's accomplishments and the challenges they still face individually and as a group. Leibovitz demonstrates her own range as a photographer in this body of work, shooting in the studio and natural settings and working in both black-and-white and colour film. She depicts model Jerry Hall wearing a little black dress, a fur coat, and high heels, staring frankly at the viewer from a velvet chair in a plush red parlour while her naked infant son nurses from her exposed right breast. Schoolteacher Lamis Srour's eyes-- the only part of her face visible behind her heavy black veil--illuminate a dark black-and-white portrait. Leibovitz frames actress Elizabeth Taylor and her dog Sugar by their shocks of snow-white hair. She captures four Kilgore College Rangerettes, a drill team, at the apex of their kicks--white-booted legs pointing up, obscuring their faces and revealing the red underpants beneath their blue miniskirts. There are many more wonderful and unexpected images here, over 200 in all. The delight in discovering them awaits readers. -- Jordana Moskowitz --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Anna-Lou Leibovitz
Anna-Lou (Annie) Leibovitz (Westport, Connecticut, 2 de outubro de 1949) é uma fotógrafa estadunidense que se notabilizou por realizar retratos, e cuja marca é a colaboração íntima entre a retratista e seu retratado. Leibovitz começou a interessar-se por fotografia após uma viagem de visita a sua família, que estava a viver nas Filipinas. Durante alguns anos ela continuou a desenvolver as suas aptidões ao mesmo tempo em que teve diversas ocupações, inclusive na época em que viveu num kibbutz, em Israel, em 1969. De volta aos Estados Unidos, em 1970, começou a trabalhar na revista Rolling Stone. Em 1973, ela foi nomeada chefe de fotografia da revista, tendo permanecido até 1983. O seu estilo de fotografar as celebridades ajudou a definir o visual da revista. Publicou seis livros de fotografias: Photographs, Photographs 1970-1990, American Olympians, Women, American Music e A Photographer’s Life 1990-2005. Leibovitz assumiu uma relação com a escritora Susan Sontag, de quem esteve sempre próxima nos últimos anos de vida.
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