The monograph looks into the most characteristic themes of her manner and opens with the series of self-portraits, in which her severe gaze is reflected in mirrors and shop windows and her long shadow invades the frame.

There follow the sections given to the streets of New York and Chicago, to the portraits but also to the gestures, attitudes and postures of the people she photographed; particular attention is then paid to her interest in movement and to the kinetic sequences she made, to her extraordinary colour work and, above all, to the theme of childhood, so dear to her and with her all her life.