Photographer's Life, 1990-2005 [by Annie Leibovitz, Hardcover]

This inspired and original photographic narrative is composed from Liebovitz s personal pictures and her work as a professional photographer. 300 Photos. From the Publisher I don t have two lives, ... more

This inspired and original photographic narrative is composed from Liebovitz s personal pictures and her work as a professional photographer. 300 Photos. From the Publisher 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 f less