TASCHEN's numbered and signed Annie Leibovitz SUMO presents some of the most famous actors, musicians, artists, writers, athletes and businessmen of our time. The book comes with a Marc Newson-designed book stand.
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When Benedikt Taschen asked today's leading portrait photographer to collect her photographs in a SUMO-sized book, she was intrigued and challenged. The project took several years to complete and proved to be a revelation. Annie Leibovitz drew on more than 40 years of work, beginning with the intimate reportage she did for Rolling Stone magazine in the 1970s and continuing through to the more stylized portraits of her work for Vanity Fair and Vogue.
Famous images such as John Lennon and Yoko Ono entwined in a final embrace are printed alongside portraits rarely, and sometimes never before, seen. Annie Leibovitz was able to present some of her famous group portraits in a format that proves her to be the master of the genre. Her photographs are at once intimate and iconic, stylistically broad and also unique. Annie Leibovitz is often imitated, especially by younger photographers, but her work is somehow instantly recognizable.
The bookends of the Leibovitz collection are the black-and-white photograph of Richard Nixon's helicopter taking off from the White House lawn after he resigned as president in 1974 and the formal color portrait of Queen Elizabeth II taken in 2007 in a Buckingham Palace drawing room. In between are portraits that form a family album of our time: actors, dancers, comedians, musicians, artists, writers, performance artists, journalists, athletes, businessmen. Performance and power are recurring themes. A supplementary book includes essays by Annie Leibovitz, Graydon Carter, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Paul Roth and short texts describing the subjects of each of the more than 250 photographs.
Collector's Edition with book stand by Marc Newson Limited to a total of 9,000 numbered and signed by Annie Leibovitz, each edition comes with a book stand designed by Marc Newson.
Specifications
Title: Annie Leibovitz (SUMO)
Publisher: TASCHEN
Size: 500 x 690 x 200 mm
Size: 476 pages
Weight: 38 Kg
Language: English
Material: Hardcover
ISBN: 9783836552387
Collector's Edition: 9,000 numbered and signed copies
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TASCHEN is a leading art book publisher known for its dazzling and bold world of striking coffee-table books on architecture, aphrodisia, art, design, fashion, photography, pop culture, style and travel. Working closely with renowned creative partners, the company has published thousands of titles in dozens of languages. From the essential Basic Art series to SUMO-sized Collector's...
