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In the light of woman
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Women
by Annie Leibovitz, Susan Sontag
Price: US$45.00
(October 17, 2000)
All the extraordinary portraits in the book are made by photographer Annie Leibovitz. Looked at together, these “photographs of people with nothing more in common than that they are women, all — well almost all — fully clothed", writes Susan Sontag in the book's preface, form “an anthology of destinies 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, violence victims, senators, rock stars, prostitutes, teachers, athletes, poets, writers, painters, musicians, theater directors, political activists and businesswomen. 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 colour film. She depicts model Jerry Hall wearing a little black dress, a fur coat and high heels, staring frankly at the viewer from a velvet chair while her naked infant son nurses from her right breast. Schoolteacher Lamis Srour's eyes — the only part of her face visible behind her heavy black veil — illuminate (使增添色彩) a dark black-and-white portrait. Leibovitz frames actress Elizabeth Taylor and her dog Sugar by their shocks of snow-white hair. There are many more wonderful and unexpected images here, over 200 in all. The delight in discovering them awaits readers.
Crazy Salad: Some Things About Women (Humour and Wit Series)
by Nora Ephron
Price: US$12.95
(May 30, 2000)
The classic Crazy Salad, by screenwriting legend and novelist Nora Ephron, is an extremely funny, deceptively light look at a generation of women. In this distinctive, engaging and simply hilarious (滑稽的) view of a period of great upheaval in America, Ephron turns her keen eye and wonderful sense of humour to the media, politics, beauty products and women's bodies.
Ephron brings her sharp pen to bear on (对准，瞄准) the notable women of the time and to a series of events like Watergate scandal. When it first appeared in 1975, Crazy Salad helped to illuminate a new American era — and helped us to laugh at our times and ourselves. This new edition will delight a fresh generation of readers.
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