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Annie Leibovitz: Stream of Consciousness

Annie Leibovitz, Patti Smith, MacDougal Street, 2024.

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Annie Leibovitz got her first photography job in 1970, at a three-year-old magazine called Rolling Stone. By 1973, she was its chief photographer. In 1975, in the role of tour photographer, she traveled the country with a 13-year-old band called the Rolling Stones. And in 1983, she joined the staff of Vanity Fair, where she still contributes. A new exhibition at Hauser & Wirth is showing the intimate, often moody portraits for which Leibovitz is best known, as well as still lifes and landscapes of intense directness—a photograph of Abraham Lincoln’s top hat, for instance, or Edward Hopper’s childhood home in Rockland County, New York. “You don’t have to sort of enhance reality,” Leibovitz once said. “There’s nothing stranger than the truth.” —Paulina Prosnitz

Photo: © Annie Leibovitz; courtesy of the artist and Hauser & Wirth

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