Declare Books In Pursuance Of A Photographer's Life: 1990-2005
| ISBN: | 0375505091 (ISBN13: 9780375505096) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Annie Leibovitz
Hardcover | Pages: 472 pages Rating: 4.2 | 2077 Users | 74 Reviews
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| Title | : | A Photographer's Life: 1990-2005 |
| Author | : | Annie Leibovitz |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 472 pages |
| Published | : | October 3rd 2006 by Random House |
| Categories | : | Art. Photography. Nonfiction. Biography. Art and Photography |
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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 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.Rating Containing Books A Photographer's Life: 1990-2005
Ratings: 4.2 From 2077 Users | 74 ReviewsAssess Containing Books A Photographer's Life: 1990-2005
These photographs must be read as a text. The way, they appear in the book, reveals a true (love & life) story and the book indeed is a very personal statement of Annie Leibovitz. The beautiful surroundings in Jordan and Susan Sontag in Petra, the pictures of Annies dancing mum and her close-up portrait, the appartements in New York and Paris, Susans 60th birthday and Susan lying on a couch in the pond house, Susan holding baby Sarah Cameron and the empty office in the pond house afterThis is the finest photo book I've ever had the pleasure of indulging in. The juxtaposition Leibovitz provides, between her professional career and personal life, described in the forward as indistinguishable, is spellbinding. On an emotional level, she appeals to both photographers, journalists, and those wanting a little more time with their loved ones. The choice of filling the rich glossy pages with the noir shadows of black and white, rubbing shoulders with high quality decadent magazine
Filled my day with beauty, I love Annie L and her photography 💚💚💚!!!
In comparison to the previous collection of Leibovitz's work that I read (On Work) this book has a much more personal touch. There are far fewer of her "professional" pieces (famoous portraits, Vogue editorials, etc) and instead we are given family photographs, travel montages, and candid shots which reveal the intimacy of her relationship with Susan Sontag. While many of these images are similar in subject and style to those seen in any family album (and are therefore not really a credit to
I have spent a lot of time in many small moments looking through and at single images in this huge book. Originally 2 or three photograph's and a 'series' caught my eye and prompted it being added to my collection. I've since found several more photos that elevate this to a favorite book and it doesn't sit on the coffee table. The death photos of Susan Sontag are gripping and somber.Political statements abound within this work but are mostly subtle and intense without being 'in your face'.A.L.
Fascinating and beautiful. A story told only in images. However, I'm only giving it a four because whoever thought it was ok to spread photographs across two pages so that the emotional/visual center of the image was lost deep down in the crease deserves a kick in the shin. Multiple beautiful (I assume) pictures were totally ruined that way.
This great big eight-and-one-half pound book runs straight as an arrow through time, but emotionally it's a terrifying rollercoaster. Through the loved, the family, the rich, the famous, the ugly beautiful, and more of the empty famous, I emerged exhausted, elated, and feeling that I haven't lived at all. Not a single gram could have been cut. Annie Leibovitz is the greatest photographer of our baby boomer generation, and probably a couple before and since. She exuberantly destroys the myth of
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