Annie Leibovitz, Photographs, 1970-1990 : Including a conversation with Ingrid Siscny (Libro en inglés)

Annie Leibovitz’s witty and powerful portraits have defined American popular culture for more than two decades. First seen in Rolling Stone in the 1970s and then Vanity Fair in the 1980s, her photographs of musicians and actors, politicians and athletes, dancers and artists have become icons of the times in their own right. They are audacious, graphically bold, and yet surprisingly intimate. Leibovitz says that she thinks of her subjects as “collaborators,” which they must be, consciously or not. The result is work that is honest and revealing in an original way. Her photographs are unforgettable.
Leibovitz, as the Curator of photographs at the national portrait gallery William F. Stapp wrote recently, “belongs to a long and noble tradition. Even in the nineteenth century, photographers like Mathew Brady in this country, Julia Margaret Cameron in Great Britain, and Nadar in france created photographic likenesses that entered popular culture to become enduring icons of that time in history. What Leibovitz has contributed to the genre is a wit that reflects her understanding of contemporary popular culture, an ability to achieve an intimate rapport with her subjects, and a visual audacity that is unusual in the history of portrait photography.”