Annie Leibovitz Taschen Collector’s – and Art Edition

Annie Leibovitz - Taschen Collector's - and Art Edition - 2014

Sharon Stone, Anjelica Huston, and Diane Lane, Los Angeles, 2006 Photo © Annie Leibovitz When Benedikt Taschen asked the most important portrait photographer working today to collect her pictures in a SUMO-sized book, she was intrigued and challenged. The project took several years to develop and proved to be revelatory. Leibovitz drew from over 40 years of work, starting with the viscerally intimate reportage she created for Rolling Stone magazine in the 1970s and extending through the more stylized portraiture of her work for Vanity Fair and Vogue. Celebrated images such as John and Yoko entwined in a last embrace are printed alongside portraits that have rarely, and sometimes never before, been seen. Leibovitz was able to present some of her famous group portraits in a format that proves that she is the master of the genre. Her pictures are at once intimate and iconic, wide-ranging stylistically and also uniquely hers. Leibovitz is often imitated, particularly by younger photographers, but her work is somehow immediately recognizable.

The bookends of the Leibovitz collection are the black-and-white photograph of Richard Nixon’s helicopter lifting off from the White House lawn after he resigned as president in 1974 and the formal color portrait of Queen Elizabeth II taken in a drawing room of Buckingham Palace in 2007. In between are portraits that make up a family album of our time: actors, dancers, comedians, musicians, artists, writers, performance artists, journalists, athletes, businesspeople. Annie Leibovitz, bookstandPerformance and power are recurring themes. A supplementary book contains essays by Annie Leibovitz, Graydon Carter, Paul Roth, and Hans Ulrich Obrist and short texts describing the subjects of each of the over 250 photographs.

Limited to a total of 10,000 signed and numbered copies, this book is available as:
- a Collector’s Edition / No. 1,001–10,000,
- an Art Edition / No. 1–1,000 with a signed and numbered fine art print by Annie Leibovitz.

The Art Edition is presented with the full set of all four dust jackets.
Both editions will be presented with a book stand designed by Marc Newson.
Medium: Hardcover with fold-outs and book stand, designed by Marc Newson, plus additional supplement book,
Size: 50 x 69 cm, 476 pages
Price Collector’s Edition: € 2,500
Price Art Edition: € 5,000

Annie Leibovitz, 4 covers.The Collector’s Edition is available in four different dustjackets:
- Whoopi Goldberg, Berkeley, California, 1984
- Keith Haring, New York City, 1986
- David Byrne, Los Angeles, 1986
- Patti Smith, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1978

The Annie Leibovitz Taschen Collector's and Art Editions are available at Taschen