| A Photographer's Life: 1990-2005 | 
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Category: Book
Publisher: Random House
Studio: Random House
Manufacturer: Random House
Label: Random House
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 472
Shipping Weight (lbs): 8.2
Dimensions (in): 13.9 x 10.5 x 1.7
ISBN: 0375505091
Dewey Decimal Number: 779.2092
EAN: 9780375505096
ASIN: 0375505091
Publication Date: October 3, 2006
Release Date: October 3, 2006
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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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 A Photographer's Life --more than voyeurism May 11, 2008
It's likely the first time you browse through A Photographer's Life, you will use it as a peeping tom would use a window, as a voyeur, looking in on the lives of famous people -- and perhaps that's the intention. But then, go back and gaze at the photos as art, looking for the lighting, the mood, the context. Leibovitz's photos of herself are almost too revealing, but use them as the introduction to herself as she intended. The photos she took for Rolling Stone of rock stars and politicians are as rich as the articles for which her photos were shot. Read them as you would the article itself. You will learn much.
 Disappointed after all April 13, 2008
I was very excited to win this book as a prize for a photo contest tied to the Annie Liebowitz exhibit in SF, CA. My photo was related to families. I acknowledge the other reviewers. The graphic layout of the photos reduced the value of her beautiful work. This book is important. It's production should have accorded it the same treatment. Who was in charge of its publication? Was Annie consulted? I can't imagine it. Actually it would make me feel better to think that she wasn't included in the approval cycle; how could you do this to yourself?
Annie Leibovitz photography February 18, 2008
A beautiful and touching collection of her life and friends in her own words------photography. I have her first book and this one is just as great. A beautiful, interesting coffee table book. Every time you look through it you see it again differently.
of note February 3, 2008
After reading some of the other reviews, i have to agree with the comments about content however i believe it's important to understand that this was a publication for an accompanying exhibition at the brooklyn museum of art. It is an exhibition that is still touring around today. I saw the exhibition and was struck by the quality of the photographs as well as their diversity. It is as the title suggests, "A Photographers Life" and should be seen as such. I really liked the exhibition for it's incite into the life behind all of the famous photograph's we have come to know annie leibovitz for.
PERFECT COPY January 7, 2008
Book was brand new in plastic, at a deeply discounted price. Couldn't ask for more!
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