“The imagery of women has to catch up with the imagery of men,” Annie Leibovitz told
the NY Times regarding WOMEN: New Portraits, her 2016 traveling photography exhibit.
The images continue her 1999 project, Women, a book she published
with her late partner Susan Sontag
“Women are a work in progress,” she said. “To my
dying day,
I’ll be doing these photographs.”
Misty Copeland, dancer, NYC, 2015
© Annie Leibovitz
There couldn't be a better time to celebrate the
spirits and accomplishments of women than right now, when the
forces of misogyny seem to have been unleashed all over the world.
WOMEN: New Portraits opens today November 18, at the
Bayview Correctional Facility, a former women's prison in Manhattan
that was closed after Hurricane Sandy.
The show's opening launches the Art Deco building’s restoration and
transformation into a Women’s Building, which will reopen as a center for
women’s groups and services in 2020.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwhmekeQPtmZxBvZ8HNxiAYpsV_qe_p-FVKwJACmFGPum4LO2rss0rcgIRWoWKLGXm7kyPPawxC_nyCgNm_cln7R3kmwlMY85xbt3wq_UuyqBfpjnAE334ErNtk_N7GVhdD6S1ZngWhZM/s400/06-Annie-Leibovitz-02.w710.h473.jpg)
The show has already been exhibited in
London, Tokyo, San Francisco, Mexico City and Milan.
It will head to Zurich after New York, rounding out a year-long world tour.
forces of misogyny seem to have been unleashed all over the world.
WOMEN: New Portraits opens today November 18, at the
Bayview Correctional Facility, a former women's prison in Manhattan
that was closed after Hurricane Sandy.
The show's opening launches the Art Deco building’s restoration and
transformation into a Women’s Building, which will reopen as a center for
women’s groups and services in 2020.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwhmekeQPtmZxBvZ8HNxiAYpsV_qe_p-FVKwJACmFGPum4LO2rss0rcgIRWoWKLGXm7kyPPawxC_nyCgNm_cln7R3kmwlMY85xbt3wq_UuyqBfpjnAE334ErNtk_N7GVhdD6S1ZngWhZM/s400/06-Annie-Leibovitz-02.w710.h473.jpg)
The show has already been exhibited in
London, Tokyo, San Francisco, Mexico City and Milan.
It will head to Zurich after New York, rounding out a year-long world tour.
For her new photography exhibit
Annie Leibovitz shot portraits of
female luminaries at work: Malala Yousafzai, Serena and
Venus Williams,
Gloria Steinem, Elizabeth Warren, Shonda Rhimes on set, Jane Goodall,
Misty Copeland on pointe, Adele at her
piano,
Katie Ledecky in the pool, and Lena Dunham, among many others.
WOMEN: New Portraits will be on view in New York from November 18 through December 11. For the November 18 opening, formerly incarcerated women will lead a discussion
about female imprisonment and women’s rights. Speak-outs and "talking circles" have been an integral part of the exhibition since its outset.
~oOo~
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