Annie Leibovitz at Work
Monday, May 4th, 2009
Annie Leibovitz
People who only know Annie Leibovitz’s “Vanity Fair” work might dismiss her as an illustrator who uses vast resources to stage meaningless set pieces. For those people “Annie Leibovitz at Work” will be a revelation because it covers the whole arc of her career back to her brilliant work for “Rolling Stone”. Her older work is so much more interesting and so much more real that her elaborate recent work pales in comparison.
In the book Leibovitz writes in detail about photos and photo essays from her entire career. The stories are always interesting, but what struck me was that each contains some of her hard-earned experience. This is a book that photographers can learn from.
