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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
By Purpleheart
This book is the companion piece to the exhibition currently showing at the National Portrait Gallery in London and which will be there until February 2009. It covers photos from 1990 onwards. There are the familiar, staged photographs of the famous that you may have seen in Vanity Fair, or another glossy, and then there are the family snaps.It's interesting when the photographer, the recorder, is pretty much as famous as the person whose image she captures- the effect somehow shows in these pictures. There are some fascinating photos:* an impossibly young looking Bill Clinton poses in the oval office* Demi Moore's famous pregnant photo* Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes stare at us from behind a car windscreen and remind me of an Edward Hopper painting* George W Bush and his senior team: Colin Powell, Dick Cheney, Condoleeza Rice et al look very fit and at ease with the world* Willie Nelson could be an American Indian chief in a portrait where he looks as if he has been carved out of wood* Great sports pictures.... not so impressive, except in size, are the landscapesAnd then the family snaps - there is the odd formal portrait but mostly she photographs the personal: her mother's 80th birthday, her lover Susan Sontag looking glamorous in Venice, then looking very ill, then being loaded into an air ambulance and then laid out for her funeral, Liebovitz's new born daughter, her visibly aging parents. Her mother has a habit of raising her leg in the air, stretching it out like a dancer - my family had a 'physical exuberance' says Liebovitz. They are touching pictures.She's made the personal public here and the personal photos are juxtaposed against the glossy touched up images and make them seem both more skilful and more superficial.In the exhibition we have access to a fascinating room where we can see the images pinned to a board - revealing the work in progress of which ones would be included. Sontag's notes on The Volcano Lover are there too - more work in progress.Seeing this body of work has raised her up a couple of notches in my estimation of her as a photographer - if you get a chance go and see it and if you can't - enjoy the book.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
By Donald Mitchell
You have a great treat ahead of you.If a great portrait photographer can wring powerful meaning from people she barely knows, imagine what she can do with those she knows and loves. That's the exciting door that Annie Leibovitz opens for us in publishing A Photographer's Life: 1990-2005. Walk through that door, and you'll never be the same.While there are many wonderful celebrity portraits in the volume, those mostly pale my comparison to the intimate portraits from Ms. Leibovitz's personal life. In many ways, Ms. Leibovitz's life is both mundane and extraordinary . . . and these images help us see more deeply into both.As she hints in the introduction, Ms. Leibovitz sees each person as small and fleeting in terms of the universe . . . but large and important in the moment terms of the uniqueness of that person and that moment for those whose lives are touched at the time. The iconic photographs of Susan Sontag dwarfed by the opening to Petra in Jordan and sitting on the Great Pyramid capture this sense beautifully. But so do photographs of celebrities (like Cindy Crawford, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jim Carrey, and Sylvester Stallone) looking as they never looked before or since.Ms. Leibovitz is unafraid to reveal herself which adds to the dynamic of this book themed around the fleeting nature of human life. You'll see her partially undraped with camera in hand creating a series of four self portraits. The serious look in her eyes belies the sensuality of her torso. Having chosen motherhood in her fifties, you'll also see her fully exposed in her pregnant state in a portrait that echoes the famous magazine cover of a pregnant Demi Moore.More significantly, she reveals the deep caring that she felt for Susan Sontag during their years together before Ms. Sontag succumbed to cancer. That painful downward path is thoroughly portrayed in rich texture.The same theme of mortality is carried forth in a series of photographs of her parents that culminate in her father's death. Her mother's decline from a sprightly grandmother into an aging widow is also well documented.Vibrant images of family life, siblings, nieces, and daughters help remind us that life is a never-ending cycle moving forward. One of my favorites is a landscape view of a roomful of family members celebrating her mother's 80th birthday as her mother takes a photograph of Ms. Leibovitz taking the photograph.This delightful book contains four other elements that are worthy of mention.Ms. Leibovitz is very aware that much of the appearance of celebrities is artifice rather than reality. She makes that point beautifully in the "before" and "after" images of Susan McNamara and Linda Green in Las Vegas in 1996 which show ordinary women transformed into "show girls." Even more eloquently, she captures that artifice in a single photograph of President George W. Bush and his key advisors at the start of his presidency looking like posed characters from a poster for a new move, Conquering Faultless Heroes of the White House.Another astonishing dimension is her ability to turn landscapes into God's works of art. I agree with her assessment that the shooting in Monument Valley didn't turn out all that well, but the other landscapes in the book are terrific . . . if too few in number. I hope Ms. Leibovitz will do more of this kind of work in the future.She has a strong sense of place to makes these landscapes work. That same sense works well in her photographs of stunning locations with buildings on them, such as her country home that she developed from a virtual ruin.There's a sense of humor that's remarkable. Buildings seem to bring it out the best. The stunning Guggenheim museum in Bilbao is revealed in its mortal roots by a foreground of construction in progress.9/11 also appears in images that capture the emotions we all felt on that day and immediately thereafter.If I had to pick one photograph that best captures the book, it would be the cameo shot of Willie Nelson that highlights his personality and history through his deeply lined face.
31 of 32 people found the following review helpful.
By A. Ferrier
I have mixed feelings about this book. I'm a bit of a fan of Leibovitz's celebrity work, and the studio photos were indeed excellent (if you're considering this book, you'll probably have seen many of them before).The 'best-the-scenes' photos of Leibovitz's life were also interesting. They didn't hold my attention too long, but they certainly had some interesting moments, and will be interesting to you if you want to find out more about her life.The most disappointing aspect of this book is the production; many of the best photos have been split across two pages, so that the centre of attention is right down the spine in the middle, hidden in the binding. To take such beautiful photos and present them so badly doesn't say much for the publisher. It's a shame.Nevertheless, they don't all suffer from this problem. It's a worthy purchase, if quite pricey.
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