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"I am a New Yorker one, I’m an artist two, I’m a woman three,” says Laurie Anderson in this excerpt from The Women's List. The artist best known for her pioneering electronic music admits she has a “God complex.” “I like to make things that ...

Photographer-filmmaker Timothy Greenfield Sanders uses a large format Deardorff camera and shoots just six to eight frames for his portraits. For the women in The Women's List, he has created 15 portraits that are distinct, but also flow together. The portrait sitting and filmed interviews ...

In an outtake from The Women's List, Margaret Cho speaks about her parents' openness to the gay community and to Cho's bisexuality, and about their distinct accents. Cho is an American comedian, fashion designer, actress, author and singer-songwriter. She is best known for her stand-up ...

Pedro E. Guerrero began his career by photographing Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin West in Scottsdale, AZ, skillfully capturing texture and depth in a two-dimensional medium. Architectural photographer Norman McGrath and an animation help explain Guerrero's use of a large format 4x5 camera. In an original ...

Photographer Pedro E. Guerrero describes the working style and art works of New York City sculptor Louise Nevelson, with whom he collaborated. Her black-on-black works were particularly challenging to photograph. He photographed her and her art works in her apartment, work studios, and on public ...

Photographer Pedro E. Guerrero talks about his magazine assignments in the 1950s and 60s. When he first came to New York in the late 1940s, his portfolio was nearly exclusively photos of impressive Frank Lloyd Wright buildings. He worked for many magazines including for Vogue, ...

A photograph of his mother standing next to Althea Gibson, and his mother's pride at having played once against the tennis champion, are the origins of Rex Miller's interest in Gibson. Gibson's tennis achievements initially drew Miller to tell her story, but he was also ...

Confidence and strength come shining through in portraits by filmmaker/photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders. These 15 women who have created and defined contemporary American culture share their wisdom in Greenfield-Sanders' film American Masters: The Women's List. The project is the newest chapter of Greenfield-Sanders’ List documentary series ...

Betsey Johnson is an award-winning fashion designer known for her whimsical and feminine designs. She began her career in New York City in the 60s and was part of Andy Warhol’s underground scene. In 2012, Johnson celebrated 40 years of her namesake brand. In an ...