VENICE — The world seen through the eyes of 25 female photographers can be a wondrous, at times harsh, place.

It is populated by Diane Arbus’s unselfconscious socialites, circus performers and sex workers; Shirin Neshat’s musings on Muslim women; Nan Goldin’s intimate insight into 1980s-era New York subculture; and Martina Bacigalupo’s identical twins, who engage the spectator in a discourse on identity, as do Bettina Rheims’s stark portraits of transgender men and women.

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