Annie Leibovitz SUMO Hardcover Limited Edition Brand New Signed by Leibovitz

This hardcover book is one of a limited edition of 9,000 numbered copies signed by Annie Leibovitz. This LARGE volume measures 19.7 inches x 27.2 inches! The book presents Annie Leibovitzs photographic portraits of some of the most famed actors, musicians, artists, writers, athletes, and businesspeople of our time. This at once intimate and iconic portrait collection is presented with a Marc Newson designed book stand and a. Distance between each leg: 34 in.

Platform: 31 x 27 in. Height when positioned horizontally: 35 in. Height when in display position: back 39 in.

When Benedikt Taschen asked the most important portrait photographer working today to collect her pictures in a SUMO-sized book, she was intrigued and challenged. The project took several years to develop and proved to be revelatory.

Annie Leibovitz drew from over 40 years of work , starting with the viscerally intimate reportage she created for Rolling Stone magazine in the 1970s and extending through the more stylized portraiture of her work for Vanity Fair and Vogue. Celebrated images such as John Lennon and Yoko Ono entwined in a last embrace are printed alongside portraits that have rarely, and sometimes never before, been seen.

Annie Leibovitz was able to present some of her famous group portraits in a format that proves that she is the master of the genre. Her pictures are at once intimate and iconic, wide-ranging stylistically and also uniquely hers. Annie Leibovitz is often imitated, particularly by younger photographers, but her work is somehow immediately recognizable. The bookends of the Leibovitz collection are the black-and-white photograph of Richard Nixons helicopter lifting off from the White House lawn after he resigned as president in 1974 and the formal color portrait of Queen Elizabeth II taken in a drawing room of Buckingham Palace in 2007. In between are portraits that make up a family album of our time: actors, dancers, comedians, musicians, artists, writers, performance artists, journalists, athletes, businesspeople.

Performance and power are recurring themes. A supplementary book contains essays by Annie Leibovitz, Graydon Carter, Hans Ulrich Obrist, and Paul Roth and short texts describing the subjects of each of the over 250 photographs.

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 governments Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and has been designated a Living Legend by the Library of Congress. The item "Annie Leibovitz SUMO Hardcover Limited Edition Brand New Signed by Leibovitz" is in sale since Wednesday, August 21, 2019. This item is in the category "Art\Art Photographs". The seller is "macspaulding" and is located in Santa Barbara, California. This item can be shipped to United States.

Size: Large (up to 60in.)
Artist: Annie Leibovitz
Date of Creation: 2000-Now
Features: Signed by Annie Leibowitz
Width (Inches): 19.7 inches
Originality: Limited Edition Hardcover SUMO
Height (Inches): 27.2 inches