I had the great fortune to visit the Annie Leibovitz show at the High Museum in Atlanta last Friday. Just amazing! I've been a fan of hers since the Rolling Stone days, but I have to admit I haven't been keeping up these last fifteen years. Now, after seeing this latest exhibition (1990-2005), she is without a doubt simply the best.
Here are the exhibit details from the High web site:
The personal photographs in the exhibition document many events involving her family, including the birth of Leibovitz’ three daughters and the death of her father. Portraits of public figures include the pregnant Demi Moore; rock star Mick Jagger; actors Chris Rock, Robert DeNiro, Al Pacino and Scarlett Johansson; George W. Bush with members of his Cabinet at the White House; William Burroughs in Kansas; and Agnes Martin in Taos. Assignment work includes searing reportage from the siege of Sarajevo in the early 1990s, and a series of landscapes taken in the American West and in the Jordanian desert.
The show is up though September 9; if you're in the Southeast and have a chance to go, by all means don't miss it.
And here's a link to the show
4 comments:
Thanks for the tip! I'll try to get to Atlanta. Did you ever get to work with her as an art director?
We just saw a great show at SFMOMA by Martin Munkacsi,probably the Liebovitz of his day
http://www.sfmoma.org/exhibitions/exhib_detail.asp?id=260
Thanks for this info. I'm so happy to read that the show will come here in February next year.
No, I never did get to work with her. She was too rarefied, even by Whittle standards. We did try to hire the Rolling Stone Photo Editor once though. Can't remember her name.
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