Leibovitz’s Life in Pictures
Preview Chapters of Leibovitz’s Life in Pictures
Annie Leibovitz’s new book, ‘A Photographer’s Life: 1990-2005,’ provides a comprehensive view of the public side of a photographer of legendary ambition and tenacity. Her well-known subjects describe her as a perfectionist who will do almost anything to get the picture she wants: If time allows, Leibovitz likes to spend two or three days around a portrait subject first, just getting ideas. Despite the meticulous planning, the perfect image can come out of the blue. Take Leibovitz’s Jack Nicholson picture. Whenever she was busy setting up a shot inside his Mulholland Drive house, he’d disappear out back to drive golf balls–and that became the photograph. And believe it or not, she didn’t intend to shoot Bill Gates at his computer–but it was where she found him when he wandered away from her lights.