I love its heft. 500+ pages of Annie Leibovitz's work.
I think James Garner was not credited in a photo of actors from Westerns.
In my opinion, the only major bummer is - and it's possible i missed it - I do not see any of the photos from the Marie Antoinette shoot. That is still my favorite work of Annie's.
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Leibovitz Unlimited
The coveted Annie Leibovitz SUMO is now available in an unlimited XXL edition. Drawing on more than 40 years of work, including photojournalism made for Rolling Stone magazine in the 1970s and conceptual portraits for Vanity Fair and Vogue, Leibovitz selected iconic images and also photographs that have rarely, if ever, been seen before.
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When Benedikt Taschen asked the most important portrait photographer working today, Annie Leibovitz, to collect her pictures in a SUMO-sized book, she was intrigued by the challenge. The project took several years to develop and when it was finally published in 2014, it weighed in at 26 kg (57 pounds). |
This incredible collection is now available in an accessible XXL book format. |
Leibovitz drew on more than 40 years of work, starting with the photojournalism she did for Rolling Stone magazine in the 1970s through the conceptual portraits she made for Vanity Fair and Vogue. She selected iconic images—such as John Lennon and Yoko Ono entwined in a last embrace—as well as portraits that had rarely, if ever, been seen before. |
40 years of era-defining photography, now in an accessible edition
The Annie Leibovitz SUMO covered political and cultural history, from Queen Elizabeth II and Richard Nixon to Laurie Anderson and Lady Gaga. “What I had thought of initially as a simple process of imagining what looked good big, what photographs would work in a large format, became something else,” Leibovitz says. “The book is very personal, but the narrative is told through popular culture. It’s not arranged chronologically and it’s not a retrospective. It’s more like a roller coaster.”
The photographer
Annie Leibovitz is one of the most influential photographers of our time. She began working as a photojournalist for Rolling Stone in 1970 while she was still a student at the San Francisco Art Institute. By 1983, when she left Rolling Stone for the revived Vanity Fair, she was already closely identified with the conceptual, theatrical style that is her hallmark. In subsequent decades, at Vanity Fair and Vogue and in independent projects, she has worked across many photographic genres and developed a large body of work—portraits of actors, directors, writers, musicians, athletes, and political and business figures, as well as fashion photographs—that expanded her collective portrait of contemporary life. She has published several books and has exhibited widely. She is a Commandeur in the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and has been designated a Living Legend by the U.S. Library of Congress.
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This book is HUGE
(first off, sorry for the poor photos, I just quickly took some on my bed - Olympus E-M5 Mark III in the first pic to give a sense of size)Wow, I did NOT expect this book to be this big and this heavy. It's gigantic and weighs 13 pounds!! It comes with a lovely slipcase too.There are like 550 pages, and the photos are exquisite. My only gripe is that I hate photos that span multiple pages when the book isn't a lay flat. As a photographer myself, I'd never print a book with my photos across two pages like that. But these aren't my photos, so I won't argue with her decision.Great addition to the book collection for anyone who loves photography.
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Reviewed in the United States on November 21, 2022
(first off, sorry for the poor photos, I just quickly took some on my bed - Olympus E-M5 Mark III in the first pic to give a sense of size)
Wow, I did NOT expect this book to be this big and this heavy. It's gigantic and weighs 13 pounds!! It comes with a lovely slipcase too.
There are like 550 pages, and the photos are exquisite. My only gripe is that I hate photos that span multiple pages when the book isn't a lay flat. As a photographer myself, I'd never print a book with my photos across two pages like that. But these aren't my photos, so I won't argue with her decision.
Great addition to the book collection for anyone who loves photography.
Wow, I did NOT expect this book to be this big and this heavy. It's gigantic and weighs 13 pounds!! It comes with a lovely slipcase too.
There are like 550 pages, and the photos are exquisite. My only gripe is that I hate photos that span multiple pages when the book isn't a lay flat. As a photographer myself, I'd never print a book with my photos across two pages like that. But these aren't my photos, so I won't argue with her decision.
Great addition to the book collection for anyone who loves photography.
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