annie leibovitz
Andy and I went to the Annie Leibovitz exhibition at the High yesterday. Her work absolutely blows me away. She’s by far my favorite photographer, which I guess makes it sad that I saw several photos yesterday that I had no idea that she had taken. I always talk about capturing moments with photography. Capturing emotion. It’s hard to do, you usually have a flicker of a second, and you just have to hope your shutter speed is quick enough to capture it. All of Annie’s photographs are moments frozen in time. A perfect example is one that she took of her daughter in the pool (which I can’t find online anywhere, but if you go to the exhibit you’ll see it a couple times). They had a video going in the exhibition, and they showed the whole family in the pool, there was nothing particularly beautiful with the scenery and the kids weren’t really doing anything that worthy of photographing, but Annie took this picture that somehow completely capsulated youth and innocence through just a brief moment in Sarah’s eyes. It was absolutely incredible. When I left all I wanted to do was take pictures.
Surprisingly though, her most famous piece was not on display. The image of Yoko Ono and John Lennon, which was taken a mere 2 hours before he was murdered, was not on display. While it’s definitely not my favorite, I think it was a piece that should have been included in the collection. Not sure I could pick a favorite out of the ones on display actually… Although the image of the Nile on Susan’s 60th birthday and the image of her daughter I described above are definitely among my top picks from Annie’s personal collection.
All in all, Annie’s entire collection is stunning, and I highly recommend the exhibition for those of you who haven’t checked it out.
