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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

A Photographer's Life: 1990-2005 Hardcover | Pages: 472 pages

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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.

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ISBN:	0375505091 (ISBN13: 9780375505096)
Edition Language:	English

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Because I wanted to revisit this, I kept it on my Currently Reading shelf even though I probably did "read" most of it one sitting last year (it's mostly photographs). With the library now closed indefinitely, it will likely be a long time before I can revisit it, yet doing so is still a goal. I'm most interested in the photographs of Susan Sontag--especially those Leibovitz took of Sontag just before and after her death--because confronting the physicality of someone so cerebral (and, indeed,

4.0 / 5.0Big Book! Enjoyed large picture format. Stunning work (particularly) profiles. Interspersed with unnerving intimate family shots. emotionally intense, but not as expressive as latest work. What a life!

Overall, a wonderful retrospective; the non-celebrity photos are the most gripping, especially those that reveal the photographer (self-portraits; portraits of Susan Sontag and the author's daughters). Not a big fan of Leibovitz's pop-culture layout (the over-size book and photos...something she also does in shows where photos are printed like posters on boards, often, instead of as fine prints, framed).

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 after

I probably found this book especially interesting because I read it after attending an exhibit by the same name at one of our local art museums.Ive always admired Leibovitzs photographs and I knew a little about her life, but I never realized how central family (both hers and others) are for her.I was surprised by how much I enjoyed the landscape photos. I particularly enjoyed the photos of her family, and the stories behind them. Perusing the text and viewing the photographs, it made me wish

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

this was a book i picked up and flipped through one night at friend's house after drinking too much wine. i didn't expect annie l's book to be so personal. with an unflinching eye she captured the erosion of her lover's health to cancer. the photos of susan sontag's corpse were so incredibly painful to look at. i was expecting to see photographs of her celebrity subjects...and i got more than i bargained for. in particular the photos of susan sontag receive chemotherapy and shaving her head made