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| Title | : | A Photographer's Life: 1990-2005 |
| Author | : | Annie Leibovitz |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 472 pages |
| Published | : | October 3rd 2006 by Random House |
| Categories | : | Art. Photography. Nonfiction. Biography. Art and Photography |
Annie Leibovitz
Hardcover | Pages: 472 pages Rating: 4.2 | 2077 Users | 74 Reviews
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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.Particularize Books Supposing A Photographer's Life: 1990-2005
| ISBN: | 0375505091 (ISBN13: 9780375505096) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Ratings: 4.2 From 2077 Users | 74 ReviewsPiece About Books A Photographer's Life: 1990-2005
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 ofThis was a book that lets you into the life of a well known photographer whose life has been iconic. Upon finishing it, I got the feeling that her life has the ups and downs, trials and tribulations of a regular person who does the job she loves and carries on the best she can. I love the sense of family she imparts.
This book is huge and very heavy, but it has tons of pictures to flip through. It's a great insight into the life of Annie Leibovitz's life. We see photos from some of her regular paid jobs and then more intimate photos from her personal life. It was gripping to see photos of both her father and her partner, Susan Sontag's, deaths. There are also some portraits of celebrities that were great. Because I'm studying photography right now, I really enjoyed this book.
I wish I liked this book more, because I really like her work. But the photos she chose for this personal memoir of her life included a lot of photos that were undoubtedly special to her, but to which the reader is clueless. She doesn't explain much, which is fine (it's a photography "essay" of sorts, and so her art should speak for herself) but she traveled all over the world, and usually with Susan Sonntag (her partner) and rarely put really phenomenal shots of these places in the book (only
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.
While Leibovitz's portrait and commercial work are well known, it her personal work that really stirs me in this book. She chronicles the death of her partner, Susan Sontag, and her father. Very emotional and quite the departure of her career work. The lack of 5 stars in only because I am not a huge fan of her commercial work and there is still too much of that here for me.
This book is a trip through Annie Leibovitz's life through her photographs, some personal and some commissioned. The first time I picked it up was in Barnes and Noble. I found a comfy and chair and just started flipping through. I sat there for over an hour looking at her images and was literally driven to tears in the middle of a bookstore. Truly amazing that photographs can have that sort of power.
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