This book celebrates an international array of both historic and contemporary women photographers whose important contributions to art and photography have provided a collective perspective on life, the self, the world and each other. From well-known luminaries of the medium such as Diane Arbus, Margaret Brouke-White, Nan Goldin, Laura Gilpin, Dorothea Lange, Imogen Cunningham, Cindy Sherman, Tina Barney and Annie Leibovitz to far lesser-known figures, this book is not so much a comprehensive survey as it is a truly ideal cross-section of those women whose images have shaped the way we all view the world.