'I don't 'have two lives, this is one life, and the personal pictures and the assignment work are all part of it.' Annie Leibovitz
From the very beginning of her career, Annie Leibovitz has redefined the modern celebrity portrait, altering the way we think about the people who populate our cultural landscape. Annie Leibovitz: A photographer's Life, 1990 - 2005 includes more than 150 photographs, encompassing well-known work made on editorial assignment as well as images of her family and close friends.
The exhibition features many Leibovitz's best-known portraits of public figures, including actors Jamie Foxx, Nicole Kidman, and Brad Pitt; her famous images og Queen Elizabeth II, Mikhail Baryshnikov, and then-pregnant actress Demi Moore, one of the most recognizable photographs of its time. The show also highlights portraits of artists, architects, and writers such as Richard Avedon, Philip Johnson and Cindy Sherman. Leibovitz's assignment work includes reportage from the siege of Sarajevo in the early 1990s and the election of Hillary Clinton to the U.S. Senate.
At the heart of the exhibition, Leibovitz's personal photography documents intimate and moving moments from her life, including the birth and childhood of her three daughters, as well as holidays, reunions and rites of passage with her parents and extended family. A Photographer's Life threads together the two sides of Leibovitz's work both chronologically and creatively, projecting a narrative of the artist's private world against the backdrop of her public image as one of the world's best known portrait photographers.
National Portrait Gallery, 16 October 2008 - 1 February 2009
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