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Article: What's in a word? Annie Leibovitz has a new book and a new exhibit of photography chronicling the intimate moments of her life, including a 15-year relationship with her "friend" Susan Sontag.(ART)
- Article from:
- The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
- Article date:
- November 21, 2006
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"I don't have two lives. This is one life, and the personal pictures and the assignment work are all part of it," Annie Leibovitz writes in the introduction to A Photographer's Life: 1990-2005. This new work is "the closest thing to who I am that I've ever done," she concludes.
Certainly this is the famous photographer's most important work of self-revelation. Not only does she include intimate family photographs and her celebrated personality portraits of public figures ranging from Colin Powell to Demi Moore, she also, for the first time, publishes endearing and disquieting photographs of her "friend," Susan Sontag. These shots show, for example, the writer ...