Annie Leibovitz
Coming up in our July Books Auction is this rightly titled ‘SUMO’ volume of Annie Leibovitz’s Taschen book.
This first edition, signed copy of over 200 photographic plates showcases Leibovitz’s incredible portrait photography. It includes iconic photographs from across her oeuvre such as John Lennon and Yoko Ono, New York City, December 8, 1980, the photograph taken just a few hours before John Lennon was fatally shot outside his residence in New York. Two poignant photographs shown in tandem of Virginia Woolf’s writing desk at Monk’s House and The River Ouse where she took her own life by drowning on March 28, 1941.
"I like the idea that you can leave the book open to a page and let it stand for days and then change it. It's a collection of prints, although there are rhymes in the pagination. There are riffs. The first two pictures, the portrait of Queen Elizabeth and the photograph of Richard Nixon's helicopter lifting off from the White House lawn after Nixon had resigned as President, were placed where they are because I began thinking of them as bookends for my entire career" Annie Leibovitz's introduction
"This much we know: Annie Leibovitz is one of the truly great photographers of our time. Her pictures, superlative in their honesty, range from spontaneously captured reportage to exactingly prepared conceptual portraits, exquisite in their delicate intimacy, but also often deeply visceral in impact" Hans Ulrich Obrist's interview introduction
The auction commences on Wednesday 17th July at 1pm
