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Can a single photographer chart how power, vulnerability, and identity look across three decades? Annie Leibovitz gives it her best shot—250 of them, in fact. This updated slipcased set pairs the long-out-of-print 1999 classic Women with a new companion volume, expanding the roster from trailblazers like Joan Didion and Louise Bourgeois to today’s voices, among them Billie Eilish and the Williams sisters.

Leibovitz’s signature intimacy is on full display: astronauts float weightless, farmers square their shoulders to the sun, actors drop the performance for a heartbeat of candor. Short essays by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Susan Sontag, and Gloria Steinem frame the portraits, asking what has changed—and what stubbornly hasn’t—about how we picture womanhood. Color plates sit next to stark black-and-white studies, making the set as compelling to leaf through as it is to cite. For libraries, classrooms, and coffee tables alike, Women documents influence without resorting to cliché.

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