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Article: Leibovitz Sees Glitz and Grit, Sontag Broods on the Big Idea.(Arts&Entertainment)
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- The New York Observer (New York, NY)
- Article date:
- November 8, 1999
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Byline: Peter M. Stevenson
Women, photographs by Annie Leibovitz, essay by Susan Sontag. Random House, 239 pages, $75.
At the beginning of the essay that introduces her friend Annie Leibovitz's new book of pictures, Women, Susan Sontag tells us that most of the women photographed are fully clothed, and therefore it is "not the other kind of all-women picture book ..." That is a silly disclaimer since, in the past several years, coffee table books of photographs of fully clothed women--sisters, mothers and daughters--have been best sellers. By ignoring those books and opposing Ms. Leibovitz's photographs of women to male-generated pornography, Ms. Sontag ...