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"[A] gorgeous anthology of fashion images ... Leibovitz is nothing
less than America's greatest living photographic portraitist ...
she has changed fashion photography forever." - Anna Wintour
Legendary photographer Annie Leibovitz's surprising account of her
encounters with fashion over five decades 'Looking back at my work,
I see that fashion has always been there,' Annie Leibovitz observes
in the preface to Wonderland. 'Fashion plays a part in the scheme
of everything, but photography always comes first for me. The
photograph is the most important part. And photography is so big
that it can encompass journalism, portraiture, reportage, family
photographs, fashion ... My work for Vogue fueled the fire for a
kind of photography that I might not otherwise have explored.'
Includes 350 extraordinary images (many of them previously
unpublished) featuring a wide and diverse range of subjects: Nicole
Kidman, Serena Williams, Pina Bausch, RuPaul, Cate Blanchett, Lady
Gaga, Matthew Barney, Kate Moss, Natalia Vodianova, Rihanna,
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Karl Lagerfeld, Nancy Pelosi. With a
foreword by Anna Wintour.
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Annie Leibovitz (Hardcover)
Annie Leibovitz, Steve Martin, Graydon Carter, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Paul Roth
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R4,659
Discovery Miles 46 590
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When Benedikt Taschen asked the most important portrait
photographer working today, Annie Leibovitz, to collect her
pictures in a SUMO-sized book, she was intrigued by the challenge.
The project took several years to develop and when it was finally
published in 2014, it weighed in at 26 kg (57 pounds). This
incredible collection is now available in an accessible XXL book
format. Leibovitz drew on more than 40 years of work, starting with
the photojournalism she did for Rolling Stone magazine in the 1970s
through the conceptual portraits she made for Vanity Fair and
Vogue. She selected iconic images-such as John Lennon and Yoko Ono
entwined in a last embrace-as well as portraits that had rarely, if
ever, been seen before. The Annie Leibovitz SUMO covered political
and cultural history, from Queen Elizabeth II and Richard Nixon to
Laurie Anderson and Lady Gaga. "What I had thought of initially as
a simple process of imagining what looked good big, what
photographs would work in a large format, became something else,"
Leibovitz says. "The book is very personal, but the narrative is
told through popular culture. It's not arranged chronologically and
it's not a retrospective. It's more like a roller coaster." Fans of
Leibovitz and her many celebrated subjects can now enjoy that same
roller coaster ride for themselves with this unlimited edition.
Influential photographer Annie Leibovitz presents her remarkable
portraits in this re-issue of her acclaimed and bestselling
collection. With an essay by Alexandra Fuller and an afterword by
Annie Leibovitz Annie Leibovitz: Portraits 2005-2016 is the
photographer's follow-up to her two landmark compilations, Annie
Leibovitz: Photographs, 1970-1990 and A Photographer's Life,
1990-2005. For this collection, Leibovitz has selected the best and
most representative portraits from her work between 2005 and 2016.
The pictures document contemporary culture with an artist's eye,
wit, and an uncanny ability to personalize even the most
recognizable and distinguished figures. There are over 150 subjects
in Portraits 2005-2016, including Venus and Serena Williams,
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, LeBron James, Sheryl Sandberg, Anna
Wintour, Leonard Cohen, Jasper Johns, Caitlyn Jenner, Gloria
Steinem, Joan Didion, Barack Obama, and Queen Elizabeth II.
"[A] gorgeous anthology of fashion images ... Leibovitz is nothing
less than America's greatest living photographic portraitist ...
she has changed fashion photography forever." - Anna Wintour
Legendary photographer Annie Leibovitz's surprising account of her
encounters with fashion over five decades. This luxury edition is
presented in a beautiful and elegant slipcase. 'Looking back at my
work, I see that fashion has always been there, ' Annie Leibovitz
observes in the preface to Wonderland. 'Fashion plays a part in the
scheme of everything, but photography always comes first for me.
The photograph is the most important part. And photography is so
big that it can encompass journalism, portraiture, reportage,
family photographs, fashion ... My work for Vogue fueled the fire
for a kind of photography that I might not otherwise have
explored.' Includes 350 extraordinary images (many of them
previously unpublished) featuring a wide and diverse range of
subjects: Nicole Kidman, Serena Williams, Pina Bausch, RuPaul, Cate
Blanchett, Lady Gaga, Matthew Barney, Kate Moss, Natalia Vodianova,
Rihanna, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Karl Lagerfeld, Nancy Pelosi.
With a foreword by Anna Wintour.
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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