Annie Leibovitz - Olympic Portraits - 1996

FANTASTIC PHOTOBOOK BY AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHY LEGEND Annie Leibovitz.

Annie Leibovitz is one of the most celebrated and admired photographers of our time. She began her work photographing for Rolling Stone magazine and quickly established a reputation as a chronicler of popular culture, eventually becoming a contributing photographer at Vanity Fair and Vogue. Her first book, Annie Leibovitz: Photographs, was published in 1983. In 1999 she published the bestselling Women, with a Preface by Susan Sontag, for which the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington exhibited a selection of portraits in conjunction with the hardcover publication.

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"A celebrated, highly stylized photographer of rock stars shooting Olympic athletes? That apparent anomaly seems just right when the photographer in question is Leibovitz, whose portraiture has always managed to capture the inner turmoil lurking beneath outward calm. Wisely, she chose to shoot her athletes not in Atlanta, surrounded by hoopla, but in preparation for the games, isolated and intense. The results are stunning: a sculpted Carl Lewis in repose, achieving a Mapplethorpian elegance mixed with menace; a poised and incredibly focused Michael Johnson, suggesting all the unleashed energy it would take to run faster than anyone has ever run before; a sober U.S. women's softball team, exuding the determination that would eventually produce wild jubilation and the gold medal. What drives these stark, darkly lit black-and-white photos, though, isn't our knowledge of the eventual results in Atlanta, but a sense of the overwhelming solitary confinement of athletic training, the peculiar loneliness that comes with the obsession to excel. These haunting photos will endure beyond our memory of who won what."
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Bulfinch Press Book, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, New York, Toronto, London. 1996.

Hardback (as issued). 223 x 282 mm. 188 pages. Photos: Annie Leibovitz. Text in English.

Condition:
Book inside very fresh and flawless; clean with no previous owner marks and with no foxing. Book outside with several trace of use; bumped at the top of the spine, at the bottom right corner of the front and at the bottom left corner of the rear side (all these bumps with no consequence for inside), rubbed in the lower part of the spine, bigger pen marks at the bottom edge. Overall very good condition.

Great photobook by Annie Leibovitz.