《A Photographer's Life》简介：

”I don’t have two lives,” Annie Leibovitz writes in the Introduction to this collection of her work from 1990-2005. ”This is one life, and the personal pictures and the assignment work are all part of it.” Portraits of well-known figures-Johnny Cash, Nicole Kidman, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Keith Richards, Michael Jordan, Joan Didion, R2-D2, Patti Smith, Nelson Mandela, Jack Nicholson, William Burroughs, George W. Bush with members of his Cabinet-appear alongside pictures of Leibovitz’s family and friends, reportage from the siege of Sarajevo in the early Nineties, and landscapes made even more indelible through Leibovitz’s discerning eye. The images form a narrative rich in contrasts and continuities: The photographer has a long relationship that ends with illness and death. She chronicles the celebrations and heartbreaks of her large and robust family. She has children of her own. All the while she is working, and the public work resonates with the themes of her life.

《A Photographer's Life》摘录：

...after Susan died, on December 28, 2004, I began searching for photographs of her to put in a little book that was intended to be given to the people who came to her memorial service. The project was important to me, because it made me feel close to her and helped me to begin to say good-bye. I edited this book with her in mind, as if she were standing behind me, saying what she would like to see in it. I don't have two lives. This is one life, and the personal pictures and the assignment work are all part of it. Taking intimate pictures of family members and people to whom you are close is a privilege, and it brings a certain responsibility. I would go into the barn every morning and put it (a CD by Rosanne Cash) on very loud and cry for ten minutes or so and then start working, editing...