This artist book from Laura Fields is a call-and-response between found images of active women and the artist’s illustrations in graphite on vellum which isolate and center them.

Scanned from front page covers of The New York Times, the walking, running, and leaping subjects are representative of the multifarious roles and lived experiences of women internationally. Significantly, all of the women are photographed engaging actively in the public sphere rather than in the home. Their engagement, however, ranges greatly from performing economic labour, to participating in public protest, to, most visibly, fleeing domestic terrorism and disaster.

Front Pages with Pictures of Women Walking and Running: The New York Times is part of an ongoing series concerning the documentation of women in print media.