Book Description
The 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."