Author Description

This volume contains a collection of more than 200 color and black-and-white photographs that spans the first 20 years of work by American portrait photographer, Annie Leibovitz (b. 1949). Her early photographs describe her family, entertainment celebrities and their fans, and even simple, non-famous subjects. From the playful magic of Whoopi Goldberg in a bath of milk, Bette Midler under a blanket of roses and Sting baked in mud, this book shows the wit and insight of Liebovitz's work. Others subjects from this collection include Tennessee Williams at his home in Key West, Florida, Andy Warhol, Truman Capote, The Rolling Stones, Patti Smith, Lauren Hutton talking a mud bath, Clint Eastwood, all roped up, Yoko Ono in Strawberry Field, Darci Kistler and Bob Fosse, William Wegman and Fay Ray, a very young Arnold Schwarzenegger body building, South Africa 1976, Liberace and Scott Thorson in Las Vegas and a close up of Liberace's bejeweled hands, Robert Penn Warren, Ron Kovic, Richard Nixon's resignation, Sammy Davis, Las Vegas 1989, Ella Fitzgerald, Beverly Hills 1988, dancer Baryshnikov, John Lennon, Paul Kanter, Grace Slick and China, and an Anti-War Demonstration in San Francisco 1970.