Книги про Annie Leibovitz – мистецтво зупиненої миті

У цій новій колекції від Енні Лейбовіц, однієї з найвпливовіших фотографок сучасності, культові портрети розташовані поруч із ніколи раніше не публікованими фотографіями. Післямова Енні Лейбовіц.

Annie Leibovitz: Portraits 2005-2016 – це продовження двох знакових книг фотографки: Annie Leibovitz: Photographs, 1970-1990 та A Photographer's Life, 1990-2005. У цій новій колекції Лейбовіц відобразила найвпливовіших та найпереконливіших постатей останнього десятиліття у стилі, який зробив її одним із найулюбленіших талантів сучасності. Кожна з фотографій документує сучасну культуру з художнім оком, дотепністю та неймовірною здатністю персоналізувати навіть найвпізнаваніших та найвидатніших постатей.

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Впливова фотографка Енні Лейбовіц представляє свої чудові портрети у цьому перевиданні своєї відомої та бестселерської колекції. З есе Александри Фуллер та післямовою Енні Лейбовіц

Annie Leibovitz: Portraits 2005-2016 – це продовження двох знакових збірок фотографки:Annie Leibovitz: Photographs, 1970-1990 та A Photographer's Life, 1990-2005. Для цієї збірки Лейбовіц відібрала найкращі та найрепрезентативніші портрети зі своєї роботи, створеної між 2005 та 2016 роками. Фотографії документують сучасну культуру з художнім оком, дотепністю та неймовірною здатністю персоналізувати навіть найвідоміші та найвидатніші постаті.

У Annie Leibovitz: Portraits 2005-2016 представлено понад 150 об’єктів, зокрема Вінус та Серена Вільямс, Чімаманда Нгозі Адічі, Леброн Джеймс, Шеріл Сандберг, Анна Вінтур, Леонард Коен, Джаспер Джонс, Кейтлін Дженнер, Глорія Стайнем, Джоан Дідіон, Барак Обама та королева Єлизавета II.

Про авторів:

Енні Лейбовіц — одна з найвпливовіших фотографів сучасності. Її кар'єра охоплює майже п'ять десятиліть, починаючи з 1970-х років, коли вона була широко визнаним фотографом у Rolling Stone. У Vanity Fair та Vogue, а також у незалежних проектах Лейбовіц розширила свій репертуар як портретистка з самобутнім стилем. Серед її численних нагород — звання Живої легенди Бібліотекою Конгресу, а її роботи виставляються в музеях по всьому світу.

Александра Фуллер — письменниця-лауреатка премій, чиї мемуари «Не підемо до собак сьогодні ввечері» та «Від'їжджаючи, поки не настане дощ» отримали схвалення публіки та критики. Її статті та рецензії з'являлися в численних виданнях, включаючи The New Yorker, Granta, The New York Times, Guardian та National Geographic.

Енні Лейбовіц, наш найвідоміший нинішній фотограф, пояснює, як створюються її фотографії, у цьому оновленому виданні її класичного тексту

У цьому нещодавно переглянутому виданні своєї основоположної праці Лейбовіц звертається до молодих фотографів і читачів, зацікавлених у тому, чим займаються фотографи, але будь-який читач, який цікавиться сучасною історією, буде зачарований її розповіддю про одну з найбагатших робіт у фотографічному каноні.

Теми включають фотожурналістику, роботу в студії, фотографування танцюристів і спортсменів, роботу з письменниками та перехід від зйомки на плівку до роботи з цифровими камерами.

Опубліковане в 2008 році, а потім оновлене та перевидане в 2018 році, це переглянуте й оновлене видання оновлює бестселер Лейбовіц, демонструючи деякі з її останніх робіт.

Серед обговорюваних фотографій: портрети Rolling Stones, Джона Леннона та Йоко Оно, Меріл Стріп, Кіта Харінга, Джоан Дідіон, Михайла Баришнікова, Патті Сміт, Вільяма С. Берроуза, Ріанни, Агнес Мартін, Її Високості Королеви Єлизавети II та Барака Обами.

Про автора:

Annie Leibovitz – один із найвпливовіших фотографів сучасності. Протягом майже п’яти десятиліть її характерні портрети з’являлися на обкладинках Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair і Vogue. Вона є командором Ордену мистецтв і літератури французького уряду, а Бібліотека Конгресу США визнала її живою легендою. Її роботи виставляються в музеях по всьому світу.

Дивовижна розповідь легендарної фотографки Енні Лейбовіц про її зустрічі з модою протягом п'яти десятиліть.

«Озираючись на свою роботу, я бачу, що мода завжди була поруч», – зазначає Енні Лейбовіц у передмові до Wonderland. «Мода відіграє певну роль у схемі всього, але фотографія для мене завжди на першому місці. Фотографія – найважливіша частина. А фотографія настільки велика, що може охоплювати журналістику, портретну зйомку, репортаж, сімейні фотографії, моду... Моя робота для Vogue розпалила вогонь такого виду фотографії, який я, можливо, інакше не дослідила б».

Включає 350 надзвичайних зображень (багато з яких раніше не публікувалися), що представляють широкий та різноманітний спектр тем: Ніколь Кідман, Серена Вільямс, Піна Бауш, РуПол, Кейт Бланшетт, Леді Гага, Метью Барні, Кейт Мосс, Наталія Водянова, Ріанна, Чімаманда Нгозі Адічі, Карл Лагерфельд, Ненсі Пелосі. З передмовою Анни Вінтур.

Про автора:

Енні Лейбовіц — одна з найвпливовіших фотографів сучасності. У 1970 році вона почала створювати те, що стало її легендарною роботою для Rolling Stone. З початку 1980-х років вона розширила свій репертуар у Vanity Fair та Vogue, а також у незалежних проектах. Вона є лауреаткою багатьох нагород, зокрема премії Міжнародного центру фотографії за життєві досягнення та медалі сторіччя Королівського фотографічного товариства.

Огляди:

«Wonderland демонструє потужні портрети Лейбовіц...» – Vanity Fair

«Лейбовіц не просто одна з наших провідних художниць. Вона, по суті, створила нову форму портретної живопису для нашого часу». – Шеррі Гелдін, директор Центру мистецтв Векснера

«Незалежно від того, фотографує вона знаменитих і впливових, чи просто жінку по сусідству, Енні завжди фіксує щось несподіване та глибоко особисте». – Опра Вінфрі

«Фотографія, зроблена Енні, – один із найбільших тотемів успіху в Америці». – Грейдон Картер, колишній головний редактор Vanity Fair

«Енні Лейбовіц – одна з найестетичніше обдарованих фотографів». – Guardian

«[Чудова] антологія модних зображень... Лейбовіц – не що інше, як найвидатніша американська фотопортретистка... вона назавжди змінила модну фотографію». – Анна Вінтур

Annie Leibovitz, our most celebrated living photographer, explains how her pictures are made, in this updated edition of her classic text

In this newly revised edition of her seminal work, Leibovitz addresses young photographers and readers interested in what photographers do, but any reader interested in contemporary history will be fascinated by her account of one of the richest bodies of work in the photographic canon.

The subjects include photojournalism, studio work, photographing dancers and athletes, working with writers, and making the transition from shooting with film to working with digital cameras.

Originally published in 2008 and then updated and reissued in 2018, this revised and updated edition brings Leibovitz’s bestselling book up to date, showcasing some of her most recent work.

The photographs discussed include: portraits of the Rolling Stones, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Meryl Streep, Keith Haring, Joan Didion, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Patti Smith, William S. Burroughs, Rihanna, Agnes Martin, HRH Queen Elizabeth II, and Barack Obama.

About the Author:

Annie Leibovitz is one of the most influential photographers of our time. For nearly five decades, her distinctive portraits have appeared on the covers of Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, and Vogue. She is a Commandeur in the French government's Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and has been designated a Living Legend by the Library of Congress. Her work is exhibited in museums all over the world.

Annie Leibovitz, our most celebrated living photographer, explains how her pictures are made

Leibovitz addresses young photographers and readers interested in what photographers do, but any reader interested in contemporary history will be fascinated by her account of one of the richest bodies of work in the photographic canon. The subjects include photojournalism, studio work, photographing dancers and athletes, working with writers, and making the transition from shooting with film to working with digital cameras. Originally published in 2008, this revised and updated edition brings Leibovitz's bestselling book back into print.

About the Author:

Annie Leibovitz is one of the most influential photographers of our time. For nearly five decades, her distinctive portraits have appeared on the covers of Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, and Vogue. She is a Commandeur in the French government's Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and has been designated a Living Legend by the Library of Congress. Her work is exhibited in museums all over the world.

Annie’s Big Book. 40 years of era-defining photography, now in an accessible edition

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. The project took several years to develop and when it was finally published in 2014, it weighed in at 26 kg (57 pounds).

This incredible collection is now available in an accessible, XXL book format.

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. 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.

The Annie Leibovitz SUMO covered political and cultural history, from Queen Elizabeth II and Richard Nixon to Laurie Anderson and Lady Gaga.

“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 book is very personal, but the narrative is told through popular culture. It’s not arranged chronologically and it’s not a retrospective. 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.

The photographer and author:

Annie Leibovitz is one of the most influential photographers of our time. She began working as a photojournalist for Rolling Stone in 1970 while she was still a student at the San Francisco Art Institute. By 1983, when she left Rolling Stone for the revived Vanity Fair, she was already closely identified with the conceptual, theatrical style that is her hallmark. In subsequent decades, at Vanity Fair and Vogue and in independent projects, she has worked across many photographic genres and developed a large body of work — portraits of actors, directors, writers, musicians, athletes, and political and business figures, as well as fashion photographs — that expanded her collective portrait of contemporary life. She has published several books and has exhibited widely. She is a Commandeur in the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and has been designated a Living Legend by the U.S. Library of Congress.

The authors:

Steve Martin is an award-winning comedian, actor, writer, producer, and musician.

Graydon Carter was the editor of Vanity Fair from 1992 to 2017.

Hans Ulrich Obrist is artistic director of the Serpentine Galleries, London. Prior to this, he was the curator of the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Since his first show “World Soup” (The Kitchen Show) in 1991, he has curated more than 300 shows.

Paul Roth is the director of the Ryerson Image Centre in Toronto.

Annie Leibovitz, our most celebrated living photographer, explains how her pictures are made

Leibovitz addresses young photographers and readers interested in what photographers do, but any reader interested in contemporary history will be fascinated by her account of one of the richest bodies of work in the photographic canon. The subjects include photojournalism, studio work, photographing dancers and athletes, working with writers, and making the transition from shooting with film to working with digital cameras. Originally published in 2008, this revised and updated edition brings Leibovitz's bestselling book back into print.

About the Author:

Annie Leibovitz is one of the most influential photographers of our time. For nearly five decades, her distinctive portraits have appeared on the covers of Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, and Vogue. She is a Commandeur in the French government's Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and has been designated a Living Legend by the Library of Congress. Her work is exhibited in museums all over the world.

The world through Linda's eyes. A retrospective of Linda McCartney's life and photography

In 1966, during a brief stint as a receptionist for Town and Country magazine, Linda Eastman snagged a press pass to a very exclusive promotional event for the Rolling Stones aboard a yacht on the Hudson River. With her fresh, candid photographs of the band, far superior to the formal shots made by the band’s official photographer, Linda secured her name as a rock ’n’ roll photographer. Two years later, in May 1968, she entered the record books as the first female photographer to have her work featured on the cover of Rolling Stone with her portrait of Eric Clapton. She went on to capture many of rock’s most important musicians on film, including Aretha Franklin, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Simon & Garfunkel, The Who, The Doors, and the Grateful Dead.

In 1967, Linda went to London to document the "Swinging Sixties," where she met Paul McCartney at the Bag O’Nails club and subsequently photographed The Beatles during a launch event for the Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album. Paul and Linda fell in love, and were married on March 12, 1969. For the next three decades, until her untimely death, she devoted herself to her family, vegetarianism, animal rights, and photography.

From her early rock ’n’ roll portraits, through the final years of The Beatles, to raising four children with Paul, Linda captured her whole world on film. Her shots range from spontaneous family pictures to studio sessions with Stevie Wonder and Michael Jackson, as well as encounters with artists Willem de Kooning and Gilbert and George. Always unassuming and fresh, her work displays a warmth and feeling for the precise moment that captures the essence of any subject. Whether photographing her children, celebrities, animals, or a fleeting moment of everyday life, she did so without pretension or artifice.

This retrospective volume is a lasting and deeply personal testament to Linda's talent, produced in close collaboration with the McCartney family, with forewords by Paul, Stella, and Mary McCartney.

The photographer:

Linda McCartney (née Eastman) was born in New York in 1941. She took a photo course with Hazel Archer and studied art history at the University of Arizona before settling in New York City, where she began her photo career shooting rock portraits. Outside of her photography, which has been exhibited in over 50 galleries worldwide including the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, the National Portrait Gallery, London, and the International Center of Photography, New York, Linda McCartney is known for her passionate animal rights activism and her staunch vegetarianism. She wrote cookbooks and founded her own brand of frozen vegetarian meals, all the while raising a family, continuing to take photographs, and participating as a Wings band member alongside Paul McCartney. She died in 1998 at the age of 56.

The contributing authors:

Annie Leibovitz’s body of work encompasses some of the most well-known portraits of our time. Leibovitz began her career as a photojournalist for Rolling Stone in 1970 while she was still a student at the San Francisco Art Institute. 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, her work with actors, directors, writers, musicians, athletes, and political and business figures, as well as her fashion photographs, expanded her collective portrait of contemporary life. Leibovitz has published several books and has exhibited widely. She is a Commandeur in the French government’s Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and has been designated a Living Legend by the Library of Congress.

Martin Harrison is a historian of art and photography and an exhibition curator who has collaborated with the likes of Linda McCartney and Peter Lindbergh on numerous projects and exhibitions. He has been working on Francis Bacon for twenty years, and most recently edited the artist’s catalogue raisonné (2016).

The editor:

Alison Castle received a BA in philosophy from Columbia University and an MA in photography and film from NYU/International Center of Photography. She is editor of photography, film, and design titles, including Some Like It Hot, The Stanley Kubrick Archives, Linda McCartney. Life in Photographs, and Marc Newson. Works.

In this new collection from Annie Leibovitz, one of the most influential photographers of our time, iconic portraits sit side by side never-before-published photographs. Afterword by Annie Leibovitz.

Annie Leibovitz: Portraits 2005-2016 is the photographer's follow-up to her two landmark books, Annie Leibovitz: Photographs, 1970-1990 and A Photographer's Life, 1990-2005. In this new collection, Leibovitz has captured the most influential and compelling figures of the last decade in the style that has made her one of the most beloved talents of our time. Each of the photographs documents contemporary culture with an artist's eye, wit, and an uncanny ability to personalize even the most recognizable and distinguished figures.

About the authors:

Annie Leibovitz is one of the most influential photographers of our time. Her career spans nearly five decades, starting in the 1970s when she was a widely acclaimed photographer at Rolling Stone. At Vanity Fair and Vogue and in independent projects, Leibovitz expanded her repertoire as a portraitist with a distinctive style. Her many honors include being designated a Living Legend by the Library of Congress, and her work is exhibited at museums around the world.

Alexandra Fuller is a prize-winning writer, whose memoirs Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight and Leaving Before the Rains Come have met with public and critical acclaim. Her articles and reviews have appeared in numerous publications, including The New Yorker, Granta, The New York Times, Guardian, and National Geographic.

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Походження легендарного фотографа. Початок фотографії Енні Лейбовіц і репортаж Rolling Stone

Енні Лейбовіц почала працювати фотографом на початку 1970-х років, коли в Америці був неспокійний і шалений час. Між журналістами та людьми, яких вони висвітлювали, ще потрібно було провести межі, тому вона мала доступ, який тепер вважатиметься незвичним. Ця унікальна колекція яскраво розповідає як про розвиток Лейбовіца як художника, так і про ключову епоху.

Понад півстоліття Енні Лейбовіц робить фотографії, що визначають культуру. Її портрети політиків, артистів, спортсменів, бізнесменів і членів королівської сім’ї складають галерею нашого часу, закарбувавшись у нашій колективній свідомості як незвичайністю їхніх сюжетів, так і неповторним стилем Лейбовіц.

Каталог до інсталяції у фонді LUMA в Арлі, Франція, Енні Лейбовіц: Ранні роки, 1970–1983 повертається до витоків Лейбовіц. Він починається з моменту мистецького відкриття: спонтанного кадру, який змусив Лейбовіц подумати, що вона може перейти від живопису до фотографії як напряму навчання в Художньому інституті Сан-Франциско. Ретельно та особисто підібрана колекція, включаючи контактні аркуші та полароїди, є яскравим документом як про розвиток Лейбовіца як молодого художника, так і про ключову епоху.

Репортажні фотоісторії Лейбовіц для Rolling Stone, у якому вона почала працювати, коли була ще студенткою, фіксують такі бурхливі політичні, культурні та контркультурні події, як протести у В’єтнамській війні, запуск «Аполлона-17», президентська кампанія 1972 року, відставка Річарда Ніксона в 1974 році та турне Rolling Stones у 1975 році. Тоді, як і зараз, Лейбовіц завоював довіру видатних і відомих, і сторінки книги оживляють багато знайомих облич, серед яких Мухаммед Алі, Мік Джаггер, Кіт Річардс, Кен Кізі, Петті Сміт, Брюс Спрінгстін, Джоан Дідіон і Деббі Гаррі, а також Джон Леннон і Йоко Оно, захоплені в їхніх тепер уже культових обіймах за кілька годин до вбивства Леннона.

По всій книзі портрети та репортажі пов’язані із зображеннями автомобілів, водіння та навіть із серіалом про каліфорнійських патрульних. Багато в чому це свято життя в дорозі — шалені ритми, випадкові зустрічі, можливості для медитації. І з його багатими архівними аспектами, це також данина минулому та молодому фотографу, який перебуває в перехідній культурі.

Фотограф:

Роботи Енні Лейбовіц охоплюють деякі з найвідоміших портретів нашого часу. Лейбовіц почала свою кар'єру фотокореспондента для Rolling Stone у 1970 році, коли вона ще була студенткою Художнього інституту Сан-Франциско. У 1983 році, коли вона приєдналася до штату відродженого Vanity Fair, вона була визнана найкращим фотографом рок-музики та проникливим документалістом соціального ландшафту. У Vanity Fair, а пізніше у Vogue, її робота з акторами, режисерами, письменниками, музикантами, спортсменами, політичними та бізнесовими діячами, а також її модні фотографії розширили її колективний портрет сучасного життя. Лейбовіц опублікував кілька книг і брав участь у багатьох виставках. Вона є командором Ордену мистецтв і літератури французького уряду, а Бібліотека Конгресу присвоїла їй статус Живої легенди.

Автори:

Люк Санте викладає письменство та історію фотографії в Бард-коледжі в Аннандейл-он-Гадзон, Нью-Йорк. Він є частим автором The New York Review of Books і лауреатом письменницької премії Infinity Award 2010 від Міжнародного центру фотографії.

Янн С. Веннер заснував Rolling Stone у 1967 році. Його введено до Зали слави Американського товариства редакторів журналів і він є лауреатом премії Центру Нормана Мейлера за життєві досягнення у видавництві журналів.

In this new collection from Annie Leibovitz, one of the most influential photographers of our time, iconic portraits sit side by side never-before-published photographs. Afterword by Annie Leibovitz.

Annie Leibovitz: Portraits 2005-2016 is the photographer's follow-up to her two landmark books, Annie Leibovitz: Photographs, 1970-1990 and A Photographer's Life, 1990-2005. In this new collection, Leibovitz has captured the most influential and compelling figures of the last decade in the style that has made her one of the most beloved talents of our time. Each of the photographs documents contemporary culture with an artist's eye, wit, and an uncanny ability to personalize even the most recognizable and distinguished figures.

About the Authors:

Annie Leibovitz is one of the most influential photographers of our time. Her career spans nearly five decades, starting in the 1970s when she was a widely acclaimed photographer at Rolling Stone. At Vanity Fair and Vogue and in independent projects, Leibovitz expanded her repertoire as a portraitist with a distinctive style. Her many honors include being designated a Living Legend by the Library of Congress, and her work is exhibited at museums around the world.

Alexandra Fuller is a prize-winning writer, whose memoirs Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight and Leaving Before the Rains Come have met with public and critical acclaim. Her articles and reviews have appeared in numerous publications, including The New Yorker, Granta, The New York Times, Guardian, and National Geographic.

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Pilgrimage took Annie Leibovitz to places that she could explore with no agenda. She wasn’t on assignment. She chose the subjects simply because they meant something to her. The first place was Emily Dickinson’s house in Amherst, Massachusetts, which Leibovitz visited with a small digital camera. A few months later, she went with her three young children to Niagara Falls. “That’s when I started making lists,” she says. She added the houses of Virginia Woolf and Charles Darwin in the English countryside and Sigmund Freud’s final home, in London, but most of the places on the lists were American. The work became more ambitious as Leibovitz discovered that she wanted to photograph objects as well as rooms and landscapes. She began to use more sophisticated cameras and a tripod and to travel with an assistant, but the project remained personal.

Leibovitz went to Concord to photograph the site of Thoreau’s cabin at Walden Pond. Once she got there, she was drawn into the wider world of the Concord writers. Ralph Waldo Emerson’s home and Orchard House, where Louisa May Alcott and her family lived and worked, became subjects. The Massachusetts studio of the Beaux Arts sculptor Daniel Chester French, who made the seated statue in the Lincoln Memorial, became the touchstone for trips to Gettysburg and to the archives where the glass negatives of Lincoln’s portraits have been saved. Lincoln’s portraitists - principally Alexander Gardner and the photographers in Mathew Brady’s studio - were also the men whose work at the Gettysburg battlefield established the foundation for war photography. At almost exactly the same time, in a remote, primitive studio on the Isle of Wight, Julia Margaret Cameron was developing her own ultimately influential style of portraiture. Leibovitz made two trips to the Isle of Wight and, in an homage to the other photographer on her list, Ansel Adams, she explored the trails above the Yosemite Valley, where Adams worked for fifty years.

The final list of subjects is perhaps a bit eccentric. Georgia O’Keeffe and Eleanor Roosevelt but also Elvis Presley and Annie Oakley, among others. Figurative imagery gives way to the abstractions of Old Faithful and Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty. Pilgrimage was a restorative project for Leibovitz, and the arc of the narrative is her own. “From the beginning, when I was watching my children stand mesmerized over Niagara Falls, it was an exercise in renewal,” she says. “It taught me to see again.”

About the Author:

Annie Leibovitz is one of the most influential photographers of our time. In 1970, she began creating what became her legendary work for Rolling Stone. Since the early 1980s, she has expanded her repertoire at Vanity Fair and Vogue and in independent projects. She is the recipient of many honors, including the International Center of Photography’s Lifetime Achievement Award and the Centenary Medal of the Royal Photographic Society.

The photographs by Annie Leibovitz in Women, taken especially for the book, encompass a broad spectrum of subjects: a rap artist, an astronaut, two Supreme Court justices, farmers, coal miners, movie stars, showgirls, rodeo riders, socialites, reporters, dancers, a maid, a general, a surgeon, the First Lady of the United States, the secretary of state, a senator, rock stars, prostitutes, teachers, singers, athletes, poets, writers, painters, musicians, theater directors, political activists, performance artists, and businesswomen. "Each of these pictures must stand on its own," Susan Sontag writes in the essay that accompanies the portraits. "But the ensemble says, So this what women are now -- as different, as varied, as heroic, as forlorn, as conventional, as unconventional as this."

About the Author:

Annie Leibovitz is one of the most influential photographers of our time. In 1970, she began creating what became her legendary work for Rolling Stone. Since the early 1980s, she has expanded her repertoire at Vanity Fair and Vogue and in independent projects. She is the recipient of many honors, including the International Center of Photography’s Lifetime Achievement Award and the Centenary Medal of the Royal Photographic Society.

The impulse to do AMERICAN MUSIC, writes famed photographer Annie Leibovitz, “came from a desire to return to my original subject and look at it with a mature eye. Bring my experience to it…make it a real American tapestry.” Her ambitious idea became AMERICAN MUSIC, a stunning collection of photographs of the musicians, places and people that enrich the landscape of American music.

As Rolling Stone’s chief photographer for over thirteen years, Leibovitz created a legendary body of work. Her portraits of some of the world’s most talented musicians capture more than the performer, they convey the art of making music. For AMERICAN MUSIC, Leibovitz traveled across the country to juke joints in the Mississippi Delta, honkytonks in Texas, and jazz clubs in New Orleans “to take pictures in places that mean something.” In her signature style, she shares stunning portraits of American greats -- B.B. King, Willie Nelson, Bonnie Raitt, Bruce Springsteen, Beck, Bob Dylan, Mary J. Blige, Jon Bon Jovi, Steve Earle, Ryan Adams, Miles Davis, Etta James, Pete Seeger, Emmylou Harris, Tom Waits, The Dixie Chicks, Dr. Dre, The Roots and many more.

AMERICAN MUSIC includes a commentary about the American Music project by Leibovitz, short essays by musicians Patti Smith, Rosanne Cash, Steve Earle, Mos Def, Ryan Adams, and Beck as well as biographical sketches of all the musicians.

About the Author:

Annie Leibovitz is one of the most influential photographers of our time. In 1970, she began creating what became her legendary work for Rolling Stone. Since the early 1980s, she has expanded her repertoire at Vanity Fair and Vogue and in independent projects. She is the recipient of many honors, including the International Center of Photography’s Lifetime Achievement Award and the Centenary Medal of the Royal Photographic Society.

The world through Linda's eyes. A retrospective of Linda McCartney's life and photography

In 1966, during a brief stint as a receptionist for Town and Country magazine, Linda Eastman snagged a press pass to a very exclusive promotional event for the Rolling Stones aboard a yacht on the Hudson River; her fresh, candid photographs of the band were far superior to the formal shots made by the band’s official photographer, and she was instantly on the way to making a name for herself as a top rock ’n’ roll photographer. In May 1968, with her portrait of Eric Clapton, she entered the record books as the first female photographer to have her work featured on the cover of Rolling Stone. During her tenure as the leading photographer of the late 1960s’ musical scene, she captured many of rock’s most important musicians on film, including Aretha Franklin, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Simon & Garfunkel, The Who, The Doors, and the Grateful Dead. In 1967, Linda went to London to document the "Swinging Sixties," where she met Paul McCartney at the Bag ’O Nails club and subsequently photographed The Beatles during a launch event for the Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album. Paul and Linda fell in love, and were married on March 12, 1969. For the next three decades, until her untimely death, she devoted herself to her family, vegetarianism, animal rights, and photography.

From her early rock ’n’ roll portraits, through the final years of The Beatles, via touring with Wings to raising four children with Paul, Linda captured her whole world on film. Her shots range from spontaneous family pictures to studio sessions with Stevie Wonder and Michael Jackson, as well as artists Willem de Kooning and Gilbert and George. Always unassuming and fresh, her work displays a warmth and feeling for the precise moment that captures the essence of any subject. Whether photographing her children, celebrities, animals, or a fleeting moment of everyday life, she did so without pretension or artifice.

This retrospective volume - selected from her archive of over 200,000 images - is produced in close collaboration with Paul McCartney and their children. Included are forewords by Paul, Stella, and Mary McCartney. As such, it is a moving personal journal and a lasting testament to Linda’s talent.

Trade edition.

Exhibitions featuring highlights
from the Linda McCartney Archive

June 2 – July 29, 2011
The Bonni Benrubi Gallery
41 East 57th Street 13th Floor, New York, NY 10022

June 7 – 16, 2011
Phillips de Pury & Company
Howick Place, London, SW1P 1BB

The photographer:

Linda McCartney (née Eastman) was born in New York in 1941. She took a photo course with Hazel Archer and studied art history at the University of Arizona before settling in New York City, where she began her photo career shooting rock portraits. Outside of her photography, which has been exhibited in over 50 galleries worldwide including the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, the National Portrait Gallery, London, the Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, and the International Center of Photography, New York, Linda McCartney is known for her passionate animal rights activism and her staunch vegetarianism. She wrote cookbooks and founded her own brand of frozen vegetarian meals, all the while raising a family, continuing to take photographs, and participating as a Wings band member alongside Paul McCartney. She died in 1998 at the age of 56.

The contributing authors:

Annie Leibovitz has been a working photographer for 40 years. She was the chief photographer for Rolling Stone and then the first contributing photographer for the revived Vanity Fair. In addition to her editorial work at Vanity Fair, and later at Vogue, she has created several award-winning advertising campaigns. She has been designated a Living Legend by the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Martin Harrison is a historian of art and photography and an exhibition curator. He worked with Linda McCartney on Roadworks (1996), Light from Within (2001), and her exhibitions at the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television in Bradford and the International Center of Photography in New York. He has published widely on photography and, most recently, on the paintings of Francis Bacon.

The editor:

Alison Castle received a BA in philosophy from Columbia University and an MA in photography and film from New York University (NYU/International Center of Photography masters program). She is the editor of titles on photography, film, and design, including Some Like it Hot, The Stanley Kubrick Archives, and Linda McCartney: Life in Photographs.