Annie Leibovitz got her first photography job in 1970—at Rolling Stone. By 1973, she was the chief photographer for the zeitgeist magazine. In 1975, in the role of tour photographer, she traveled the country with the Rolling Stones (the band). 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 imbued with a sense of normalcy—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
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Annie Leibovitz: Stream of Consciousness
Annie Leibovitz, Patti Smith, MacDougal Street, 2024.
When
Until Jan 11, 2025
Where
542 West 22nd Street, New York, NY 10011, United States
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Photo: © Annie Leibovitz; courtesy of the artist and Hauser & Wirth