A Photographer's Life: 1990-2005

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“I don’t have two lives,” Annie Leibovitz writes in the Introduction to this collection of her work from 1990—2005. “This is one life, and the personal pictures and the assignment work are all part of it.” Portraits of well-known figures–Johnny Cash, Nicole Kidman, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Keith Richards, Michael Jordan, Joan Didion, R2-D2, Patti Smith, Nelson Mandela, Jack Nicholson, William Burroughs, George W. Bush with members of his Cabinet–appear alongside pictures of Leibovitz’s family and friends, reportage from the siege of Sarajevo in the
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Overview

“I don’t have two lives,” Annie Leibovitz writes in the Introduction to this collection of her work from 1990—2005. “This is one life, and the personal pictures and the assignment work are all part of it.” Portraits of well-known figures–Johnny Cash, Nicole Kidman, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Keith Richards, Michael Jordan, Joan Didion, R2-D2, Patti Smith, Nelson Mandela, Jack Nicholson, William Burroughs, George W. Bush with members of his Cabinet–appear alongside pictures of Leibovitz’s family and friends, reportage from the siege of Sarajevo in the early Nineties, and landscapes made even more indelible through Leibovitz’s discerning eye. The images form a narrative rich in contrasts and continuities: The photographer has a long relationship that ends with illness and death. She chronicles the celebrations and heartbreaks of her large and robust family. She has children of her own. All the while she is working, and the public work resonates with the themes of her life.
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"When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph." As if to demonstrate its author's point, A Photographer's Life follows Annie Leibovitz through 15 years of camera encounters, recapturing her lens snaps of presidents, actors, authors, war orphans, sports stars, musicians, and her own children. Her family portraits add balance and ballast to her studies of international celebrities. Those searching for the latter will find them here in abundance: William Burroughs, George W. Bush, Joan Didion, Patti Smith, Johnny Cash, Nicole Kidman, Keith Richards, Jack Nicholson, Nelson Mandela, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Michael Jordan, and more.
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Personal images from someone who's so good at turning the lens the other way. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780812979633
  • Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
  • Publication date: 11/3/2009
  • Edition description: Reprint
  • Pages: 472
  • Sales rank: 227,960
  • Product dimensions: 9.94 (w) x 12.54 (h) x 1.42 (d)

Meet the Author

Annie Leibovitz
Annie Leibovitz was born on October 2, 1949, in Waterbury, Connecticut. While studying painting at the San Francisco Art Institute she took night classes in photography, and in 1970 she began doing work for Rolling Stone magazine. She became Rolling Stone’s chief photographer in 1973. By the time she left the magazine, ten years later, she had shot 142 covers. She joined the staff of Vanity Fair in 1983 and in 1998 also began working for Vogue.

In addition to her magazine editorial work, Leibovitz has created influential advertising campaigns for American Express, the Gap, and the Milk Board. She has worked with many arts organizations, including American Ballet Theatre, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and the Mark Morris Dance Group, and with Mikhail Baryshnikov. Her books include Annie Leibovitz: Photographs, Photographs: Annie Leibovitz, 1970-1990, Olympic Portraits, Women, and Annie Leibovitz: American Music. Exhibitions of her work have appeared at museums and galleries all over the world, including the National Portrait Gallery and the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C.; the International Center of Photography in New York; the Brooklyn Museum; the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam; the Centre National de la Photographie in Paris; and the National Portrait Gallery in London. Leibovitz has been designated a Living Legend by the Library of Congress and is the recipient of many other honors, including the Barnard College Medal of Distinction and the Infinity Award in Applied Photography from the International Center of Photography. She was decorated a Commandeur in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government. She lives in New York with her three children, Sarah, Susan, and Samuelle.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 11, 2007

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    It was a beautiful book. and a memorable one. The photography is enjoyable, but its not a must have book for the photography lover. Its a great coffie table book, but not much else.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 4, 2007

    A Piece of Life

    I, personally, loved this book. Annie had photographs compiled to show us LIFE, not just a compilation of her best works. This book was a document of her life over the past 15 or so years. She had photos from things she had experienced mixed among pictures she had done on commission done on commission, because all are a part of life to her, and meant something to her personally. I really recommend it to anyone with an appreciation of all things in life or even just photography in general.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 20, 2006

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    I was really looking forward to this new book. I have enjoyed her photography for years. I am glad I was able to look through it at Barnes and Noble before actually purchasing the book....I would have considered it a waste of money because one time through was certainly enough for me.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 10, 2006

    A Visual Autobiography: Excerpts from an Exceptional Life

    1990 - 2005 is the period of time brilliant photographer Annie Leibovitz elects to share with us. Not only is this hefty and beautifully designed volume of her work of artistic significance, it is also one of the more understated yet tender musings on the life cycle as it affects one person. One of the most sought after portrait photographers in the world, this volume does not disappoint those whose major interest is seeing the big celebrities in the inimitable manner in which Leibovitz captures them: her portraits arrest time and allow us to linger in that sacred moment of connection between artist and model like few others can achieve. Here are photographs of Sylvester Stallone with his aging upper torso alone showing - a study in the inevitable pull of gravity that age diminishes youth images of stars like Nicole Kidman and Jack Nicholson, of political figures like Bush cum cabinet and Arnold Schwarzenegger, writers like Joan Didion, William Burroughs - the list is long. But what grounds this collection is Leibovitz' self portraits in the tub, images of her family both immediate and extended, and one of the more sensitive tributes to the much missed Susan Sontag who lived with Leibovitz through her chemotherapy and demise. Not since Don Bachardy drew the last days of his dying Christopher Isherwood has there been a more respectful yet wholly immediate audience with death. Leibovitz' writing adds to the portfolio, a bonus here as she is usually not a woman of words. But taken as a whole this is a volume of the work and mind and heart of Annie Leibovitz that is well worth its high cost: these images will stay with the viewer indelibly. Grady Harp

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