Annie Leibovitz, a Photographer’s Life 1990 - 2005, Random House, 2006

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Documents the arc of Leibovitz's relationship with her companion, Susan Sontag, who died in 2004; the birth of her three … Read more Documents the arc of Leibovitz's relationship with her companion, Susan Sontag, who died in 2004; the birth of her three daughters; and many events involving her large and robust family, including the death of her father. This book also features the portraits of public figures including the pregnant Demi Moore, and Nelson Mandela in Soweto.

“I don t have two lives, " Annie Leibovitz writes in the Introduction to this collection of her work from 1990 2005. "This is one life, and the personal pictures and the assignment work are all part of it. " Portraits of well-known figures Johnny Cash, Nicole Kidman, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Keith Richards, Michael Jordan, Joan Didion, R2-D2, Patti Smith, Nelson Mandela, Jack Nicholson, William Burroughs, George W. Bush with members of his Cabinet appear alongside pictures of Leibovitz s family and friends, reportage from the siege of Sarajevo in the early Nineties, and landscapes made even more indelible through Leibovitz s discerning eye. See less