Annie Leibovitz Photographs 1970–1990

12 March - 4 May 1997 in the Entire Gallery
Curated by the International Centre of Photography in New York in conjunction with the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery Annie Leibovitz Photographs is a comprehensive retrospective which explores her career as a photojournalist from the 1970s to the present. Recognised as one of the greatest portrait photographers of her generation, Annie Leibovitz creates bold, quirky, revealing images of public figures.

This major retrospective of some 170 photographs was first shown at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington and is the first major exhibition of Leibovitz’s work to be seen in New Zealand. Some of the photographs on show have never before been seen in public. Celebrity portraits include those of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Ella Fitzgerald, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Mick Jagger. The exhibition ranges from Leibovitz’s early photojournalism, produced for Rolling Stone magazine, to her more recent work for Vanity Fair magazine. Witty, humane and affectionately mocking, Annie Leibovitz has reinvigorated the art of the photographic portrait.

Supported by Saatchi & Saatchi, TV2 and Wellington Newspapers.