Terry Peters
Book Reviews

8 Women by Annie
Leibovire and Susan
Sontag, Random House,
246 pages, $115.

A book of photographs
that depict the great variety
within a minority croup
would draw limited attention,
but here the minority is in
eversthing but numbers.

Celebrated photographer
Annie Leibovitz curns her

star-studded camera towards
women of all walks of life.

Leibovitz focuses on the
unknown, the downtrodden,
the average, the famous, and
the powerful. Their common
bond is uheir gender but it’s a
link without emphasis, as cach
subject is brougat in tront of
the camera and allowed to
stand alone, an individual
worthy of consideration.

The subject of women is
given close scrutiny by gifted
writer Susa. Sontag in her
essay within the buok.

“One of the tasks of pho-
tography is to disclose, and
shzpe our sense of, the variety
of the world. {cis not to pre-
sent ideals, ‘There is no agen-
da except diversity and inter-
est. There are no judgments,
which of course is itself'a
judgment.”

The images combine to
form a powerful collective, a
very human subject, full of
strengths and weaknesses.
The combination of
Leibovitz’s outstanding pho-
tos and Sontag’s thoughr-
provoking writing create a
work greater than the sum of
its parts.

“A bouk of photographs; a
book about women, a very
American project: generous,
ardent, inventive, open-
ended. It’s for us to decide
what to make of these pic-
tures. After all, a photograph
is not an opinion. Or is it?”

& Stightly Out of Focus by
Robert Capa, Random
House, 236 pages, $37.95.

Robert Capa is recognized

as one of the greatest war
hotojournalists in history.
His willingness to put himself
at risk to get better pho-
tographs is legendary. The
maxim: he passed on to other

hotographers and one he
ived by was, “If your pictures
aren’t good enough, you're
not close enough.”

In the Second World War,
Capa ‘was constantly in the
forefront of the action. He
landed «vith the first wave of
troops on Omaha Beach on
D-Day, he parachuted behind
enemy Lines in Germany for
the final assault on Berlin, and
much more.

Stighely Out of Focus is his
account of that war, from his
arrival in Engiand in 1941 to
the German surrender in

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