The Collars of Rbg: A Portrait of Justice

A striking portrait of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and her historic tenure on the United States Supreme Court, brought to life with incisive quotes and bold photographs of her iconic collars.

The collar is a powerful point of entry for exploring Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's life and her tireless work on America's highest court. The twenty-five neckpieces captured here--in over eighty stunning photographs by award-winning photographer Elinor Carucci--offer insight into RBG's legacy. Her sharp use of language, a linchpin of her notorious dissents, is celebrated throughout, with quotes to support each collar and its story. The bold, ornate, and subversive collars she chose to wear on the bench communicated so much more.

Shortly after RBG's passing in September, 2020, Carucci was commissioned by Time magazine for a commemorative piece on the late justice, focused on the stories behind her legendary collars. Here, Carucci and co-author Sara Bader use each collar to highlight a defining career moment, from RBG's earliest argument for gender equality to her support of immigration and marriage equality during her twenty-fifth year on the bench. Some of her collars are well-known, like her dissent collar, or her favorite white beaded neckpiece that she wore for important portraits. Other collars are less familiar but tell poignant stories of artists, colleagues, friends, and fans whose gifts to Justice Ginsburg found meaning in her hands.

Small in stature but towering in influence, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was described as a titan, a civil rights hero, and most poetically, by her colleague Justice Stephen Breyer, "a rock of righteousness." The Collars of RBG is an artful collection of moments from this warrior's legacy, crystallizing the many ways RBG reshaped the cultural landscape for us all.

Author: Elinor Carucci, Sara Bader
Publisher: Clarkson Potter Publishers
Published: 11/14/2023
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
ISBN: 9780593580783

About the Author
Elinor Carucci is an award-winning fine art photographer whose work has been included in many solo and group exhibitions worldwide and can be seen in The New York Times Magazine, New Yorker, Time, W, Aperture, ARTnews, and dozens of other publications. Carucci's photographs are also included in prestigious museum collections including the Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Jewish Museum, and the Houston Museum of Fine Art, among others.

Sara Bader is a writer, researcher, and editor. Bader has worked as an acquisitions editor for Princeton Architectural Press and as a senior editor for Phaidon. In addition to editing dozens of photography and visual culture books, she has conceived and researched several of her own works, including Art Is the Highest Form of Hope & Other Quotes by Artists and You Had Better Make Some Noise: Words to Change the World.