Visionaire No. 29: Woman

In this issue we explored the multifaceted nature of woman - as model, Madonna, muse, and more. Highlights included the eight-part black-and-white series by Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin and Brana Wolf, which featured such supermodels as Gisele Bundchen, Maggie Rizer, and Frankie Rayder in the nude, save for a Louis Vuitton cape draped here or a fur stole dangling there; Nobuyoshi Araki's photograph of a Vanessa Beecroft performance; and Nick Knight's life-size image, the very feminine, naked Natasha (née David). Packaged in a multiplaned, mirrored case, the issue is a vertically bound volume of red ultrasuede whose pages are filled by Cindy Sherman, Nan Goldin, Beth B, Kara Walker, Sam Taylor-Wood, Sarah Moon, Jane and Louise Wilson, Adam Fuss, Richard Phillips, David Bowie, and others.