Annie Leibovitz: The Early Years, 1970-1983

I liked the book, though it has a paper cover

Awesome!

I did like this book, and I always appreciate Annie's work, but I have an issue here. This is a 50 dollar book that really is only worth about 30 dollars. There just isn't a lot of substance to it. It was fun to look at some of her older photos, get an insight into her days as a photographer for Rolling Stone before they were a cultural icon, but even so, there just isn't a lot going on here. The foreword by the LUMA foundation doesn't really tell us anything we don't already know (we know she was an art student before she took up photography, we know she started working at Rolling Stone when they were still fairly new). Annie has a foreword as well, and this is pretty good, but I feel that they should have asked her to add some captions to some of the photos. Several of them only take up part of the page, and it would have been nice for Annie to give us some insightful story about the photo in the space available. The photos are nice, even though most of them are jsut kind of snapshots. This is her early work, I wasn't expecting much more than snap shots, and it was cool seeing that even a legend had humble beginnings. A large chunk of the book is just foreign language translations of the few write ups in the book, so it is artificially a longer book (19 pages of this). This likely was done to avoid having to make foreign print versions, making the print run cheaper. I think these savings should have been passed to the consumer, since otherwise the book is kind of short (I got through it in about an hour, and that was stopping to really look at everything).In the end, if you really want some insight in the incomparable Ms Leibovitz, then I would say get a copy of her book Annie Leibovitz At Work. That book is loaded with substance, well worth the 50 dollar price tag. This one, well, I would say only if you are a big fan of Annie, which I am.

Great little book for 30.00 . Wish it was a little bigger. Never the less great book.

Belles photos

Alles bestens. Dafür auch die 5 *. Aber DHL bekommt bei mir -5 *. Siehe Bild. Obwohl ich ausdrücklich geschrieben habe, dass das Buch im Treppenhaus abgelegt werden soll, wurde es vom Anlieferer mit Gewalt in den Briefkasten gedrückt. Zum Glück ist dem Buch nichts passiert. Hätte auch anders ausgehen können.

This is a good solid work filled with fascinating images and interesting literature. I don't know her work that well but this book has me interested in buying more. A good size too, not too small to be overpriced and filled with images too small to really see but also not too big as to be awkward to handle and not quite fit on the shelf. Well bound with an unusual 'unfinished edge' binding, which is the first time I've ever seen that, and the photo's are reproduced vert well with the B&W's being nicely grainy and the colour ones well saturated and vibrant. All in all a good book, well worth what I paid for it.

Très joli livre

A Christmas present for my daughter