Annie Leibovitz is one of
the most gifted photographers of the modern era. Her early works for Rolling
Stone are now regarded as classics, and her productions continue to shine
a brilliant light upon the human condition.
American
Music: Photographs
by Annie Leibovitz
Book Description:
The impulse to do AMERICAN MUSIC, writes famed photographer Annie Leibovitz,
â€came from a desire to return to my original subject and look
at it with a mature eye. Bring my experience to it…make
it a real American tapestry.†Her ambitious idea became AMERICAN
MUSIC, a stunning collection of photographs of the musicians, places and
people that enrich the landscape of American music.
As Rolling Stoneâ€s chief photographer for over thirteen
years, Leibovitz created a legendary body of work. Her portraits of some
of the worldâ€s most talented musicians capture more than the
performer, they convey the art of making music. For AMERICAN MUSIC, Leibovitz
traveled across the country to juke joints in the Mississippi Delta, honkytonks
in Texas, and jazz clubs in New Orleans â€to take pictures
in places that mean something.†In her signature style, she
shares stunning portraits of American greats -- B.B. King, Willie Nelson,
Bonnie Raitt, Bruce Springsteen, Beck, Bob Dylan, Mary J. Blige, Jon Bon
Jovi, Steve Earle, Ryan Adams, Miles Davis, Etta James, Pete Seeger, Emmylou
Harris, Tom Waits, The Dixie Chicks, Dr. Dre, The Roots and many more.
AMERICAN MUSIC includes a commentary about the American Music project
by Leibovitz, short essays by musicians Patti Smith, Rosanne Cash, Steve
Earle, Mos Def, Ryan Adams, and Beck as well as biographical sketches of
all the musicians.
Hardcover from Random House
Book Published: 28 October, 2003
Women
by Annie Leibovitz, Susan Sontag
Each of the extraordinary portraits made by photographer Annie Leibovitz
for her book Women stands on its own. Looked at together, these
"photographs of people with nothing more in common than that they are women
(and living in America at the end of the twentieth century), all--well
almost all--fully clothed," writes Susan Sontag in the book's preface,
form "an anthology of destinies and disabilities and new possibilities."
Leibovitz, who in her years working for Rolling Stone, Vogue,
and Vanity Fair magazines has photographed hundreds of celebrities,
turns her lens on a wide range of ordinary and extraordinary female subjects:
coal miners, socialites, first ladies, artists, domestic-violence victims,
an astronaut, a surgeon, a maid. What she creates is a reflection of contemporary
American womanhood that mirrors both women's accomplishments and the challenges
they still face individually and as a group.
Leibovitz demonstrates her own range as a photographer in this
body of work, shooting in the studio and natural settings and working in
both black-and-white and color film. She depicts model Jerry Hall wearing
a little black dress, a fur coat, and high heels, staring frankly at the
viewer from a velvet chair in a plush red parlor while her naked infant
son nurses from her exposed right breast. Schoolteacher Lamis Srour's eyes--the
only part of her face visible behind her heavy black veil--illuminate a
dark black-and-white portrait. Leibovitz frames actress Elizabeth Taylor
and her dog Sugar by their shocks of snow-white hair. She captures four
Kilgore College Rangerettes, a drill team, at the apex of their kicks--white-booted
legs pointing up, obscuring their faces and revealing the red underpants
beneath their blue miniskirts. There are many more wonderful and unexpected
images here, over 200 in all. The delight in discovering them awaits readers.
--Jordana
Moskowitz, Amazon.com
Hardcover - 239 pages (November 1999)
Random House; ISBN: 0375500200
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Annie Leibovitz: Stardust: 1970-99
by Annie Leibovitz (Photographer), et al
Book Description: The work of photographer Annie Leibovitz has
defined celebrity photography for thirty years--her iconic images of musicians,
actors, dancers and artists like John Lennon and Yoko Ono, David Byrne,
Whoopi Goldberg, the Blues Brothers (Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi), Louis
Armstrong, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Ray Charles, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Keith
Haring, Mick Jagger, Bette Midler, Patti Smith, Clint Eastwood, and Ella
Fitzgerald have defined how we see those figures. "Stardust: Annie Leibovitz
1970-1999" presents images of all of the aforementioned performers as well
as other famous figures including Hillary Clinton, Muhammad Ali, Carl Lewis,
astronaut Eileen Collins, and Jann Wenner, in work previously published
in such magazines as "Rolling Stone", "Vogue", and "Vanity Fair". This
volume, published on the occasion of a recent exhibition at New York's
International Center for Photography, is as much a tribute to the ever-increasing
power of celebrity in contemporary culture as it is a testament to Leibovitz's
skill behind the lens.
Paperback - 47 pages (February 15, 2001)
Louisiana; ISBN: 8790029496
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A
Different Kind of Intimacy : The Collected Writings of Karen Finley
by Karen Finley, Annie Leibovitz (Photographer)
A Different Kind of Intimacy will bring together for the first time
a collection of performance artist Karen Finley's texts, performances,
short stories, essays, op-eds, art and photographs, creating a unique memoir
of a woman whose life and career have embodied the urgent cultural conflicts
of our time. The writings include text from the infamous performances that
brought her to the Supreme Court in Finley vs. NEA, a battle that became
a mainstay of the culture wars and which has made Finley an icon in the
struggle for freedom of speech. Included in this volume will be the never
before published, Obie Award-winning The American Chestnut for which she
received a Guggenheim; such works as We Keep Our Victims Ready, A Certain
Level of Denial, The Return of the Chocolate Smeared Woman, and an excerpt
from her forthcoming film Shut Up and Love Me. Also appearing will be previously
unpublished short stories, photos, artwork, and an essay on censorship.
In 1998 Finley was named Woman of the Year by MS. magazine; she posed for
Playboy the following year. She has appeared in numerous films including
Philadelphia, and will soon be directing her own first feature film, Shut
Up and Love Me, produced by Forensic Films. She has recorded albums including
a collaboration with Sinead O'Connor. Finley is a regular on Politically
Incorrect and can be seen giving her opinions on Exhale, a new show hosted
by Candace Bergen on Oxygen. She will be hosting The Naked Players, a "nude
Candid Camera" as well as Shock Video, both on HBO. Finley has written
four books: Shock Treatment, Enough Is Enough, Living It Up, and Pooh Unplugged.
"We need Finley: she doesn't duck the bullets, she keeps her eyes peeled
on the artillery aimed at women, and she continues to push against her
own boundaries as an artist" -- MS. Magazine
Amazon.com
Paperback - 384 pages (October 30, 2000)
Thunder's Mouth Press; ISBN: 1560252936
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Photographs : Annie Leibovitz 1970-1990
by Annie Leibovitz
Paperback Reprint edition (October 1992)
HarperCollins (paper); ISBN: 0060923466
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The Photojournalist, Mary Ellen Mark and Annie Leibovitz
by Adrianne. Marcus
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Aperture : On Location With : Annie Leibovitz, Lorna Simpson, Susan
Meiselas, Cindy Sherman, Adam Fuss, Joel-Peter Witkin, Jon Goodman
(Paperback - November 1995)
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Olympic Portraits
by Annie Leibovitz (Photographer)
Hardcover / Published 1996
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Annie Leibovitz (Stern Portfolio Library)
by Annie Leibovitz (Paperback - June 1999)
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Dancers (Photographers at Work)
by Annie Leibovitz (Photographer)
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Random House Presents 20th Century Photography
by Annie Leibovitz, Richard Avedon
(Hardcover)
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Annie
Leibovitz: Celebrity Photographer (1993) DVD
Produced in 1993, this documentary depicts the development of Annie
Leibovitz's career as a celebrity photographer, which she began after studying
painting at the San Francisco Art Institute. Giving up a position as staff
photographer at Rolling Stone magazine, she went on tour with Mick Jagger,
and the photographs of this period reveal the anguish and torment of being
a famous musician. This documentary also emphasizes the artistic and metaphorical
nature of her portraits: a naked John Lennon embraces Yoko Ono dressed
in black just hours before he was murdered; Clint Eastwood stands, but
is bound up by a rope; Whoopee Goldberg is captured in a bathtub with legs,
arms, and laughing face protruding out of soapy water. At times the photographer's
inspiration comes from the person she is portraying, such as when Keith
Haring paints a room and then paints his nude body to match the room. We
see footage of how she pursues a shot for the cover of Vanity Fair, setting
up her equipment in various locations to take provocative photographs of
Demi Moore. A naked Demi Moore is painted with a blue suit, while Leibovitz
anxiously waits to take the photographs. Produced for London Weekend Television,
this 51-minute-long program contains nudity and explicit language, and
also talks about the photographer's drug addiction. Nevertheless, through
this gifted photographer's vision we get a sweeping view of the 1970s and
'80s in the celebrity worlds of music, acting, and politics. --Anne
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