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Article: Annie Leibovitz, exposed in 'Life': Brooklyn Museum's retrospective goes from iconography to snapshots.
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- Newsday (Melville, NY)
- Article date:
- October 20, 2006
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Byline: Ariella Budick
Oct. 20--Annie Leibovitz has a knack for churning out instant icons. Think of her naked, fetal John Lennon cleaving to a clothed Yoko Ono, of Whoopie Goldberg splashing in a bath of milk, of Meryl Streep pulling at her whitened, masklike face. Leibovitz, the preeminent portrait photographer working today, is at her best with actors, pop stars and others skilled at self-projection. A retrospective on view at the Brooklyn Museum makes it clear that she doesn't do as well with people whose identities are amorphous and whose physiques, less than perfect.
"Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer's Life" juxtaposes the polished commercial work ...
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