WOMEN — Nadia Lee Cohen

This clothbound photographic monograph by British artist Nadia Lee Cohen is in the Darwin archive because it crystallizes her singular vision of femininity as staged, amplified performance and cinematic spectacle. WOMEN is a major project made over six years that brings together 100 striking portraits of women — created, styled, and photographed with the polished synthesis of fashion, pop culture, and surrealist mise‑en‑scène. Each page feels like a frame from an imagined film, where lighting, gesture, costume, and color converge into characters that simultaneously inhabit and subvert cultural archetypes of womanhood. Accompanied by texts from Cohen and collaborators, the work interrogates how female identity is constructed, displayed and consumed; it’s a visual feast and conceptual probe into the image’s power to narrate and disguise. In Darwin’s view, this fifth edition stands as a landmark in photographic portraiture and visual narrative — both glossy and uncanny in its examination of the self as spectacle.

Technical Sheet
Title: WOMEN
Artist / Author: Nadia Lee Cohen
Date: 2023 (Fifth edition)
Technique / Printing Method: Offset printed photobook, full color
Medium / Materials: Clothbound hardcover with debossed text on front cover and spine
Edition: Fifth edition (of 2,000 copies)
Signed: No
Dimensions (cm): 24.5 × 33.0
Language: English
Pages: 216
Publisher / Editor: IDEA Publishing
ISBN: 9782918392095
Condition: New