Women

Photographs by Annie Leibovitz

Essay by Susan Sontag

Metaphor – After studying this collection of 247 portraits by Annie Leibovitz and reading this essay by Susan Sontag, I began wondering whether all women are performance artists. Emerging from societal expectations and existing within the soul-crushing realities of a culture structured against them while still reaching and expanding beyond the confines of communal norms – each woman is a performance artist, and it must be exhausting. The show never ends.