A Photographer’s Life: 1990 – 2005
Being photographed by Annie Leibovitz is like having the Beatles write a song about you. Your place in history is assured.

This former RollingStone staffer has curated an exhibition that is like a family album, except that her ‘family’ includes people like Mikhail Baryshnikov and Hillary Clinton. In her own words: “I don’t have two lives. This is one life, and the personal pictures and the assignment work are all part of it.”
 
Spanning over 15 years and including reportage from Sarajevo in the ‘90s, famous advertising campaigns such as ‘Got Milk’, landscapes from Wadi Rum in the Jordanian Desert and Monument Valley in the American West, as well as close, intimate portraits of Leibovitz’s three daughters and the rites of passage associated with parenthood.
 
Celebrity stalkers will lap up Leibovitz’s portraits of Jamie Foxx, Daniel Day Lewis, Demi Moore, Scarlett Johansson, Al Pacino, Nicole Kidman and Brad Pitt as well as artists and architects such as Richard Avedon, Brice Marden, Philip Johnson, Chuck Close and Cindy Sherman.
 
Want your own piece of Annie to take home? The 200 images in the exhibition will be available in a fully illustrated hardback book that will be available from the MCA store ($85).
 
Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer’s Life 1990 – 2005
19 November 2010 – 26 April 2011
Museum of Contemporary Art, 140 George Street, The Rocks 2000
$15 admission, $10 concession