Vision of an 'antic eye'
Photographs: Annie Leibovitz
Annie Leibovitz
Pantheon/Rolling Stone Press
100 Pages, $35.00
If Annie Leibovitz were to
photograph herself, her self
portrait would go one step further
than those she has shot of the Six
ties Avant-Garde. Unorthodox
celebrity she is, but even more,
she's one of its chief chroniclers.
In 1970 when she was a 20-year
old art student, she managed to
get “Rolling Stone" art director,
Robert Kingsbury, to look at her
portfolio. He hired her. Within a
month, her first portrait of John
Lennon appeared on the cover of
the magazine. Since then, she has
shot cover after cover for "Rolling
Stone."
Leibovitz's work represents
some of the most celebrated of
celebrity journalism, and her
reputation is on iine with that of
Richard Avendon's. Her
photographs have filled and
covered "Time," "Life," "Vanity
Fair," Newsweek," and "Vogue."
Though the name,“Leibovitz,"
• fail to ring a bell for some
ignore photo credits, her
clean, hard-edged, poster-like por
traits are some of the most ar- ;
ticulate objets d'art that the
rock'n'rolling stone generation
has in its visual memory.
This handsome book, graced
with a superb introduction by
Tom Wolfe, is the first published
collection of Leibovitz's
photography. Of the 69 full- or
double-page spread photographs
(most of them shot in primary col- 1
ors), more than half were publish
ed in "Rolling Stone" between .
1975 and 1982. No chronological (
or other easily discernible se
quence dictates the arrangement.
The apparent random order exag
gerates the unpredictable beauty
and insightful whimsy of each
portrait.
Like anything well executed,
Leibovitz's photographs are
deceptively simple. They're mark
ed by surprise, humor, curiosity,
compassion and an un-ordinary
insight into American stardom
and culture. They're obviously
made by a person gifted with two
of the most important tools a
photojournalist can have: a clear
eye, and an ability to understand
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Meryl Streep is one of the many celebrities photographed by Annie
Leibovitz and displayed in her book.
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