Annie Leibovitz Women Susan Sontag Portraits Photographs HC DJ

Description: Annie Leibovitz Women Susan Sontag Portraits Photographs HC DJ. Randon House. New York. 1999. Stated First edition. Second printing. Photographs by Annie Leibovitz. Text by Susan Sontag. Hardcover. With the dust jacket. Quarto. 10x13 . Very good in a very good dust jacket. Moving well beyond her initial fame as a rock & roll correspondent and celebrity caricaturist for Rolling Stone, Women celebrates the evolution of Annie Leibovitz into one of the most formidable portraitists since Richard Avedon. Her portraits of women, from Hillary Clinton in the White House to Tammie Winfield, a victim of domestic violence, are deeply felt, often incorporating their subject's environments in revealing ways. Susan Sontag, in a fully collaborative role as editor and writer, offers her observations on the essential qualities of women in photography. Includes brief bios of subjects. 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 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 color film. Includes portraits of Hillary Rodham Clinton, Drew Barrymore, Patti Smith, Madeleine Albright, Elizabeth Taylor, Serena and Venus Williams, Carly Fiorina, Ann Richards, Sigourney Weaver, Diane Sawyer, Betty Ford, Jackie Joyner Kersee, Martina Navratilova, Courtney Love, Martha Stewart, Katharine Graham, Barbara Bush, Maya Lin, Heidi Fleiss, Nicole Kidman, Eudora Welty, Laurie Anderson, Yoko Ono, Jerry Hall, Susan Sarandon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ellen DeGeneres, Rosie ODonnell, Melissa Etheridge, Cindy Sherman, Brooke Astor, Joni Mitchell, Natalie Portman, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Toni Morrison, Christianne Amanpour, any many, many others. The boards have very light wear. Clean and bright. Internally, hinges sound. Binding tight. Soil spot to the upper right hand corner of the signature page. Hint of tanning to page edges. Beautiful clean photographs. The dust jacket has light wear. Scratches and rubbing to the covers. Some scuffing and fingerprints. More moderate wear to the corners.

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