Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer’s Life, Kunst Haus, Wien, through 31. January, 2010
The extensive retrospective currently on view in Vienna comprises over 200 works by the famous photographer Annie Leibovitz. The point of departure for the show was the Leibovitz's book A Photographer's Life: 1990-2005, and the first venue - the New York Brooklyn Museum (in October 2006).
Annie Leibovitz is said to be one of a handful of photographers who have managed to create such a huge number of truly iconic works. Michael Jordan, Richard Avedon, Nicole Kidman, George W. Bush and members of his cabinet, Cindy Sherman and others are among the subjects of Leibovitz's portrait looking back at the viewers from the exhibition hall walls.
The exhibition also features photographs of a different genre, like the war reportage from Sarajevo circa early 1990s or a photographic documentation of Senator Hillary Clinton's election campaign.
Portraits of celebrities and public luminaries and historic reportages are exhibited next to photographs of several generations of the Leibovitz family, landscapes and images captured during the artist's travels as well as her closest friends. "I don't have two lives," the photographer says in the exhibition catalogue, making the case for the concept of the show, based on the intention of revealing the two sides of the author's worlds: the personal and the public ones. Among the photographs in the "personal section", a number of pictures featuring Leibovitz's late friend, the writer and critic Susan Sontag, stand out, including some documenting her unsuccessful fight with cancer to which Sontag ultimately succumbed in 2004.
Annie Leibovitz has worked for Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair and is currently travelling the world and publishing her photographs in the Vogue and Vanity Fair magazines.
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