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American Music: Photographsby Annie Leibovitz , Patti SmithISBN 0224072714 (0-224-07271-4)
Hardcover, Random House
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Music : Photographs'Book summary:It looks like a gorgeous nostalgia trip to judge by the cover image alone. The photo is of an old school record player that lies unplugged, a white label test-pressing waiting on the turntable, while a band of paper wrapped around the cover announces the title in ye olde woodblock-looking type, American Music. A reading of the small type on the back cover reveals the image to be the very record and turntable left in Elvis Presleys bedroom the day he died, and the mind reels, thinking about whether the King listened to this record on that day or not, and who are the Stamps, anyway? An excellent selection of musician portraits interspersed with crumbly wooden jook joints and wide open fields in the South, American Music covers a wide gamut of jazz, blues, punk, country, hip-hop, rock and roll, folk and gospel musicians. And while most of the pictures were shot between 1999 and 2002, some go back to the early 1970s, when Leibovitz first became Rolling Stone magazine's chief photographer. Some of the artists are very well-known (Michael Stipe, Dolly Parton, Bob Dylan) and some of them are not (Jessie Mae Hemphill, Other Turner, Carlos Coy). Leibovitz really has a way of relaxing her performers, and this is a great part of her gift. Even when the pictures are so posed as to be ridiculous (like, what's Michael Stipe doing on that bedbug-ridden mattress-the guy's a billionaire?), she catches her subjects at their most "real." They are lost in their music, or just doing some "real person" thing (look, there is Beck in his cardoes Beck really drive his own car?). The presentation may be a little hokey, but this book is sure to please most any music fan. --Mike McGonigal [via]
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Annie Leibovitz at Work: The Making of a Photographby Annie LeibovitzISBN 0375505105 (0-375-50510-5)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Annie Leibovitz at Work: The Making of a Photograph'Book summary:Book Description
The first thing I did with my very first camera was climb Mt. Fuji. Climbing Mt. Fuji is a lesson in determination and moderation. It would be fair to ask if I took the moderation part to heart. But it certainly was a lesson in respecting your camera. If I was going to live with this thing, I was going to have to think about what that meant. There were not going to be any pictures without it."
Annie LeibovitzAnnie Leibovitz describes how her pictures were made, starting with Richard Nixon's resignation, a story she covered with Hunter S. Thompson, and ending with Barack Obama's campaign. In between are a Rolling Stones Tour, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg, The Blues Brothers, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Keith Haring, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Patti Smith, George W. Bush, William S. Burroughs, Kate Moss and Queen Elizabeth. The most celebrated photographer of our time discusses portraiture, reportage, fashion photography, lighting, and digital cameras.
Amazon Exclusive Essay: Annie Leibovitz on Photography
In 1977, when Jann Wenner, the editor of Rolling Stone, asked me to prepare a fifty-page portfolio of my pictures for the tenth anniversary issue of the magazine, I decided not to simply make a selection of photographs that had been published. I looked at everything I had done since I started working. It was a revelation. For one thing, I had no idea that I had accumulated so many photographs. You lose track of them when youre working every day. And you see the work in a different way when you look at it from the distance of time. You get a sense of where you are going. You start to see a life.I had the opportunity to edit my work most thoroughly when I prepared two retrospective books, Annie Leibovitz: 19701990 and A Photographers Life: 19902005. It was thrilling to see that first book laid out chronologically. To see the pictures historically. The second book, A Photographers Life, was assembled immediately after the death of Susan Sontag and my father. Editing the book took me through the grieving process.
The books are pure. They are mine. The magazines I work for dont belong to me. Its the editors magazine, and the editor has every right to use the material the way he or she wants to. It isnt just that art directors and editors at magazines make selections that I wouldnt necessarily make. Which they sometimes do. Or that they run pictures too small. Or that they put so much type on the pictures that you cant see them anymore. Magazines have quite specific needs. Its a collaboration only so far, which is true of almost all assignment work.
When I began working on my new book, I thought it would be a pamphlet of maybe forty pages or so. I intended to take ten of my photographs and dissect them. They didnt have to be my most famous pictures, just pictures that I cared about. But as I began going through the material I realized that I might as well be more ambitious. I started to think that I would try to answer every single question anyone has ever asked about how my work is done. To defuse the mystery, and the misconceptions. To explain that its nothing more than work. And learning how to see.
So my forty-page pamphlet became a 240-page book with over a hundred photographs in it. It is written for someone like the person I was at the beginning of my career, when I was in art school. A young me. I didnt know which road I would take. Whether it would be a commercial road, a magazine road, an artistic road, a journalistic road. Its written for that person. Someone who is interested in photography but isnt sure how they want to use it.
The book is more emotional than I had imagined it would be. But, most importantly, it is my edit. No one is going to care about, or understand, your work the way you do, and if you are going to explain it you have to be able to present it the way you want to. Thats what a book can do better than any other medium.
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(Photo credit Paul Gilmore)
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Photo Ann Leibovitzby Annie LeibovitzISBN 0060923466 (0-06-092346-6)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Photo Ann Leibovitz'Book summary:This collection of work spans Annie Leibovitz's career, beginning with early shots of John Lennon for "Rolling Stone Magazine" and moving onto recent shots of Jodie Foster. The photographs range from a relaxed shot of Keith Richards to Susan Sontag modelling beachwear and from David Lynch posing with Isabella Rosellinin in black to Roseanne Barr wallowing in mud with Tom Arnold. [via]
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A Photographer's Life : 1990-2005by Annie LeibovitzISBN 0224080636 (0-224-08063-6)
Hardcover, RHCB
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Photographer's Life : 1990-2005'Book summary:One of the most celebrated photographers of our time presents a selection of her work of the last fifteen years. The material documents the arc of Leibovitz's relationship with her companion, Susan Sontag, who died in 2004; the birth of her three daughters; and many events involving her large and robust family, including the death of her father. The book is permeated with strong emotions. Leibovitz's passion for her family and friends is part of a larger passion that extends to the subjects of her professional work, and the two worlds meet thematically. Portraits of public figures include the pregnant Demi Moore, Nelson Mandela in Soweto, Jack Nicholson on Mulholland Drive, Bill Clinton in the Oval Office, William Burroughs in Kansas, and Agnes Martin in Taos. Over 300 photographs are accompanied by an essay by Leibovitz that discusses the circumstances under which the work was made, both technically and logistically, and her relationships with and thoughts about many of the subjects. [via]
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Photographsby Annie Leibovitz , Tom WolfeISBN 0394725972 (0-394-72597-2)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Photographs Annie Leibovitz 1970-1990by Annie LeibovitzISBN 0060166088 (0-06-016608-8)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Photographs Annie Leibovitz 1970-1990'Book summary:With more than 200 color and black-and-white photographs, this stunning collection spans the first 20 years of work by one of the most important photographers of our time. Published in conjunction with a major exhibit sponsored by American Express that will open in Washington's National Portrait Gallery, this work is sure to generate enormous attention. [via]
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The Photojournalistby Mary Ellen Mark, Annie Leibovitz , Adrianne MarcusISBN 0500540276 (0-500-54027-6)
Softcover, Thames & Hudson
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The Photojournalist, Mary Ellen Mark & Annie Leibovitzby Annie Leibovitz , Mary Ellen Mark, Alskog, inc., Adrianne MarcusISBN 0690006195 (0-690-00619-5)
Hardcover, T. Y. Crowell
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Womenby Annie Leibovitz , Susan SontagISBN 0224061372 (0-224-06137-2)
Softcover, Random House
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Women'Book summary: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 [via]
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- Women: ISBN 0375756469 (0-375-75646-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc - Women: ISBN 0679783008 (0-679-78300-8)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group - Women: ISBN 0224060465 (0-224-06046-5)
Hardcover, Random House - Women: ISBN 0375500200 (0-375-50020-0)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group - Women: ISBN 067946283X (0-679-46283-X)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group - Women: ISBN 0679462848 (0-679-46284-8)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group - Women: ISBN 0679462856 (0-679-46285-6)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group - Women: ISBN 0679462864 (0-679-46286-4)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group - Women: ISBN 0224061372 (0-224-06137-2)
Softcover, Random House
- Women: ISBN 0375756469 (0-375-75646-9)
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