Recently, I had the chance to see the exhibit entitled WOMEN: New Portraits by Annie Leibovitz. In a relatively small square exhibition space, viewers were nearly on top of each other to see the small wall of portraits strung up along one side. Two large screens on two other sides projected a rotating display of portraits, while a large image of Queen Elizabeth II shone along the 4th back wall.

There were so many great things about this show! First, seeing so many images together allowed me to appreciate the extreme diversity in Ms. Leibovitz’s work—from lighting, to mood, to her subjects—they are a varied group of images, and yet they all show her style. I loved the raw edges of some of her images, the unusual posing in others. The variety of ages, colors, shapes, and settings of her female portrait subjects was stunning. She found beauty and strength in all of them. What an inspiration she is to artists, photographers, and women