For more than half a century, Annie Leibovitz has been taking
culture-defining photographs. Her portraits of politicians,
performers, athletes, businesspeople, and royalty make up a gallery
of our time, imprinted on our collective consciousness by both the
singularity of their subjects and Leibovitz's inimitable style. The
catalogue to an installation at the LUMA Foundation in Arles,
France, Annie Leibovitz: The Early Years, 1970-1983 returns to
Leibovitz's origins. It begins with a moment of artistic
revelation: the spontaneous shot that made Leibovitz think she
could transition from painting to photography as her area of study
at the San Francisco Art Institute. The meticulously and personally
curated collection, including contact sheets and Polaroids,
provides a vivid document both of Leibovitz's development as a
young artist and of a pivotal era. Leibovitz's reportage-like photo
stories for Rolling Stone, which she began working for when she was
still a student, record such heady political, cultural, and
counter-cultural developments as the Vietnam War protests, the
launch of Apollo 17, the presidential campaign of 1972, Richard
Nixon's resignation in 1974, and the Rolling Stones on tour in
1975. Then, as now, Leibovitz won the trust of the prominent and
famous, and the book's pages are animated by many familiar faces,
among them Muhammad Ali, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ken Kesey,
Patti Smith, Bruce Springsteen, Joan Didion, and Debbie Harry, as
well as John Lennon and Yoko Ono, captured in their now iconic
embrace just hours before Lennon was assassinated. Throughout the
book, the portraits and reportage are linked to images of cars,
driving, and even a series on California highway patrolmen. In many
ways, it's a celebration of life on the road-the frenetic rhythms,
the chance encounters, the meditative opportunities. And with its
rich archival aspects, it is also a tribute to an earlier time and
a young photographer enmeshed in a culture that was itself in
transition.
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