The family was living in the Philippines in 1967 when. Leibovitz’s father had a military career, and her mother was a dancer. Her signature style is crisp and well lighted. It’s more like a roller coaster.” Fans of Leibovitz and her many celebrated subjects can now enjoy that same roller coaster ride for themselves with this unlimited edition. Annie Leibovitzs large and distinguished body of work encompasses some of the most well-known portraits of our time. Annie Leibovitz, original name Anna-Lou Leibovitz, (born October 2, 1949, Waterbury, Connecticut, U.S.), American photographer renowned for her dramatic, quirky, and iconic portraits of a great variety of celebrities. It’s not arranged chronologically and it’s not a retrospective. “The book is very personal, but the narrative is told through popular culture. “What I had thought of initially as a simple process of imagining what looked good big, what photographs would work in a large format, became something else,” Leibovitz says. The Annie Leibovitz SUMO covered political and cultural history, from Queen Elizabeth II and Richard Nixon to Laurie Anderson and Lady Gaga. She selected iconic images-such as John Lennon and Yoko Ono entwined in a last embrace-as well as portraits that had rarely, if ever, been seen before. Leibovitz drew on more than 40 years of work, starting with the photojournalism she did for Rolling Stone magazine in the 1970s through the conceptual portraits she made for Vanity Fair and Vogue. This incredible collection is now available in an accessible XXL book format. The project took several years to develop and when it was finally published in 2014, it weighed in at 26 kg (57 pounds). When Benedikt Taschen asked the most important portrait photographer working today, Annie Leibovitz, to collect her pictures in a SUMO-sized book, she was intrigued by the challenge. Drawing on more than 40 years of work, including photojournalism made for Rolling Stone magazine in the 1970s and conceptual portraits for Vanity Fairand Vogue, Leibovitz selected iconic images and also photographs that have rarely, if ever, been seen before.Ĥ0 years of era-defining photography, now in an accessible edition. The coveted Annie Leibovitz SUMO is now available in an unlimited XXL edition.

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