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Camera Eye of the Counterculture |
| Section: THE ARTS / PHOTOGRAPHY |
| Author: Judith Bell |
| Publication:
The World & I Online |
| Issue Date: 9/1/1991 |
| Size: 1,487 Words, 8,848 Characters |
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Asked how she would do a self-portrait, Annie Leibovitz, photographer of everybody who is anybody in American popular culture, pauses, uncomfortable with the question that calls attention to herself, that suggests that she too has become a celebrity who must now be documented by her sought-after eye. "What I want to do would be very simple, very straightforward, sort of that look you have when you come out of the shower. But it's much more work than I thought," she adds, as though thinking this might sound too out of character with the imaginative setups that have become her trademark, "because I do rely so much on what I see through the camera and in the frame."
And the faces Leibovitz has seen through her camera these last two decades--from the counterculture of the seventies on through the status-hungry eighties--collectively make a social document informed not on...
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...about seeing the show and doing the book" (out recently), continues Leibovitz, "is realizing that I am happy doing exactly what I'm doing. The more I do it, the more interesting it becomes. I always wanted to spend my whole like taking pictures, and I saw the work lasting a long time. I can do this the rest of my life. It's only going to get better. The challenge now is to just keep going." vbcrlf
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