We've all seen photos of the iconic women that changed the course of history, but rarely do we see them in their day-to-day lives, still on the cusp of fame. That's exactly what Susan Wood accomplished through her work.
The 86-year-old photographer, who worked for magazines such as Look, Life, People, and New York during the 1960s, '70s, and '80s, captured the faces of many then-fresh, now iconic women who broke ceilings and barriers, and thus changed the world.
Her colorful body of work recently culminated in a book titled "Women Portraits: 1960-2000."
Keep scrolling to see some of her most powerful pieces.
Wood first became interested in photography when she was 16, and started taking photos on a family trip to Europe after her high school graduation.
Wood told INSIDER, "I decided to buy a camera in Germany, a 35 millimeter Leica, because I preferred something more immediate with what your eye is actually seeing. It put me on a direction of encouragement in a career that has to do with using your eyes to make art."
She began forging her career path early on, taking over her college yearbook as a means to practice photography when her school offered no courses on the subject.
At Sarah Lawrence, Wood said, "There wasn't any photography course, but there was a dark room and a projector, and a yearbook that nobody cared about. So we, this girl and I, took it over and raised money to make it a magazine, with a yearbook element."
After graduating with a masters in art from Yale, she became a freelance photographer, taking photos on movie sets and selling them to magazines.
"It was all about forming relationships with the subjects," she explained.
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