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Vogue
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Vogue
In a New Volume Out This Fall, Annie Leibovitz Revisits Her Women
'This project was never done,' Annie Leibovitz once said of Women, the landmark book of portraits she created in 1999 with her late partner, Susan Sontag. Speaking to The New York Times nearly two decades later, Leibovitz made clear that the project—then touring the globe as an exhibition—wasn't meant to be finite. 'It's not one of those projects that will ever have an ending.' Making good on that concept, this November, 25 years after its original publication, Women is returning in a new slipcased edition: a two-volume set from Phaidon pairing the original book with an entirely new companion volume of portraits made between 2000 and the present. Together, they offer a sweeping meditation on femininity, power, vulnerability, and the visual vocabulary we use to define all three. Left: Susan Sontag; Right: A showgirl Photo: Courtesy of Phaidon The original Women was a deeply personal endeavor—not only due to Sontag's involvement (she penned the incisive essay that accompanied the imagery), but also because of the reverence with which Leibovitz approached her subjects. The portraits of Louise Bourgeois, Sandra Day O'Connor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Eileen Collins weren't simply about visibility—they were about legacy. Sontag's text, first excerpted in Vogue in 1999, interrogated the very idea of a book of women's portraits, positing that no such effort for men would be received in the same way. 'But then a book of photographs of men would not be undertaken in the same spirit,' she noted. 'Each of these pictures must stand on its own. But the ensemble says, so this is what women are now.'
Yahoo
04-04-2025
- Science
- Yahoo
I'm going to a huge astronomy expo to see the latest telescope tech this weekend. I won't be alone.
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A small town in New York is about to become stargazing central for thousands of space fans hoping to check out the latest telescopes and more. And this year may be the event's biggest yet. The Northeast Astronomy Forum 2025 (NEAF) is billed as the "world's largest astronomy and space expo," and runs this weekend from April 5-6 at the State University of New York Rockland Community College in Suffern, New York. "We are expecting record turnout as gauged by the advance ticket sales," NEAF exhibit coordinator Sarah Colker, a club board member, told me. The Rockland Astronomy Club, which puts on NEAF, is expecting nearly 4,000 people this year, the biggest crowd since it began 34 years ago. NEAF runs concurrently with an astrophotography-focused show, the Northeast Astro-imaging Conference, also based at SUNY Rockland. As editor-in-chief, I try to attend NEAF every year to see the latest telescopes from manufacturers like Celestron, Explore Scientific, Unistellar and others. NEAF is like a comic-con for astronomy fans, where you can get hands-on with new telescope tech (or maybe an entire personal observatory), meet an astronaut or hear the latest research on the search for life beyond Earth from pioneering scientists. Eileen Collins, NASA's first female space shuttle pilot and commander, to discuss her career this weekend, as will astronaut Robert "Hoot" Gibson. Famed Apollo flight director Gerry Griffin and next-gen counterpart Zebulon Scoville, a flight director with NASA's Artemis moon program, will discuss the state of moon exploration. If you read regularly, you may recognize one of the speakers at NEAF, our own skywatching columnist Joe Rao, who will help open ceremonies on Saturday. My favorite highlight is the solar viewing on the college lawn, where safely filtered telescopes let you gaze at sunspots and prominences (if it's not cloudy). The event is open to the public, but there is a ticket fee ($38 per day or $70 for the weekend), with student discounts available. Children under 12 are free.
