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I don't have two lives, Annie Leibovitz writes in the Introduction to this collection of her work from 1990 to 2005. This is one life, and the personal pictures and the assignment work are all part of it. Portraits of well-known figures-Johnny Cash, Nicole Kidman, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Keith Richards, Michael Jordan, Joan Didion, R2-D2, Patti Smith, Nelson Mandela, Jack Nicholson, and William Burroughs-appear alongside pictures of Leibovitz's family and friends, reportage from the siege of Sarajevo in the early Nineties, and landscapes. The pictures form a narrative of a life rich in contrasts and continuities. The photographer has a long relationship that ends with illness and death. She chronicles the celebrations and heartbreaks of her large and robust family. She has children of her own. All the while, she is working, and the public work resonates with the themes of the life.

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Annie Leibovitz's photographic memoir of the past fifteen years in her life captures powerful, intimate moments. . . . She juxtaposes the most personal against the full-color flash of celebrities and the grandeur of the natural landscape against the bloody horror of war. A Photographer's Life is a testament to a life lived large-and in full embrace. -- More magazine<br><br> Her fans may be astonished both by the range of the work and the unstudied, everyday quality of some of the images-a family day at the beach, a newborn in the delivery room. -- Newsweek <br><br> A revelation. -- Boston Sunday Globe<br> <br> Startling. -- Washington Post<br>

Annie Leibovitz's photographic memoir of the past fifteen years in her life captures powerful, intimate moments. . . . She juxtaposes the most personal against the full-color flash of celebrities and the grandeur of the natural landscape against the bloody horror of war. A Photographer's Life is a testament to a life lived large-and in full embrace. --More magazine Her fans may be astonished both by the range of the work and the unstudied, everyday quality of some of the images-a family day at the beach, a newborn in the delivery room. --Newsweek A revelation. --Boston Sunday Globe Startling. --Washington Post

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Annie Leibovitz was born on October 2, 1949, in Waterbury, Connecticut. Her father was an officer in the air force and her childhood was spent on a succession of military bases. She began her career as a photojournalist for Rolling Stone in 1970, while she was still a student at the San Francisco Art Institute. Her pictures have appeared regularly on magazine covers ever since, and her large and distinguished body of work encompasses some of the most well-known portraits of our time. Leibovitz's first major assignment was for a cover story on John Lennon. She became Rolling Stone's chief photographer in 1973, and by the time she left the magazine, ten years later, she had shot 142 covers and published photo-essays on scores of stories, including her memorable accounts of the resignation of Richard Nixon and of the 1975 Rolling Stones tour. In 1983, when she joined the staff of the revived Vanity Fair, she was established as the foremost rock music photographer and an astute documentarian of the social landscape. At Vanity Fair, and later at Vogue, she developed a large body of work-portraits of actors, directors, writers, musicians, athletes, and political and business figures, a

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