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Jamie Lee Curtis by Valerie Chiang for The New Yorker.

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By Saul Leiter

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Toni at my studio. NYC, August 2019. By Valerie Chiang.

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Marylou, fulfilling all of my Italian Neorealist dreams. July 2019. By Valerie Chiang.

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Harriet in East Sussex, and bits and pieces of Scotland. Contact sheet from June, 2018. By Valerie Chiang.

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Susanne in New York last October. By Valerie Chiang.

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Hyun Joo Hwang, 2019. By Valerie Chiang.

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Chinatown, 2018. By Valerie Chiang.

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Thea at 59th. By Valerie Chiang.

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By Chris Kilip

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Los Angeles, 2018. Valerie Chiang.

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By Helen Levitt

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Photographer Valerie Chiang

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By Saul Leiter

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Shailene Woodley for WWD. By Valerie Chiang

Styled by Alex Badia Makeup by Tyron Machhausen Hair by Keith Carpenter Story by Leigh Nordstrom Produced by Jenna Greene

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The essential way of seeing women, the essential use to which their images are put, has not changed. Women are depicted in a quite different way from men–not because the feminine is different from the masculine–but because the ‘ideal’ spectator is always assumed to be male and the image of the woman is designed to flatter him. If you have any doubt that this is so, make the following experiment. Choose [an] image of a traditional nude. Transform the woman into a man. Either in your mind’s eye or by drawing on the reproduction. Then notice the violence which that transformation does. Not to the image, but to the assumptions of a likely viewer.

John Berger, Ways of Seeing (via soracities)