Introducing – Annie Leibovitz: Women

In 1999, American photographer Annie Leibovitz published a landmark collection of photographs in a book called WOMEN. It was an important series that included a broad array of female subjects: actors, artists, politicians, writers, CEOs, philanthropists, soldiers, musicians, athletes, and scientists.

Susan Sontag, one of the most prominent writers and public intellectuals of the twentieth century, had suggested the idea of the series to Leibovitz and wrote the text for the book. In it she wrote, “Each of these pictures must stand on its own. But the ensemble says, so this what women are now - as different, as varied, as heroic, as forlorn, as conventional, as unconventional as this."

It was a personal book for Leibovitz, not only because Sontag wrote the text, but also because it featured many of the women she admired and respected. Among them were Louis Bourgeois, Eudora Welty, Alice Waters, and Sandra Day O’Connor. It included portraits of almost 150 women, with biographies of the sitters.

Long out of print, we're publishing this beloved book in a hardcover edition, made from newly created separations and printed in 4-colour and duotone.

Since the publication of WOMEN more than 25 years ago, Leibovitz has continued to photograph powerful women of outstanding achievement. To mark the fact, we are publishing an entirely new book of this continued series alongside the refreshed original volume in a two-volume, slipcase edition.

This new book mirrors the original in design and layout and contains portraits of over 100 women in the unique, personal, and insightful style that is Leibovitz’s trademark. Deciding on the subjects to best represent the spectrum of female role models could not have been easy, but Leibovitz has this time turned her lens on: Joan Baez, Agnes Gund, Julie Mehretu, Anabelle Selldorf, Anna Wintour, and more. A text by American feminist icon Gloria Steinem accompanies 250 portraits over 500 pages. The sitters for these books represent an international who’s who of women affecting positive change in the world.

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