“Photographer’s life”- a comment

It is going to be a “no photo” blog, for a change. Just something I had on my mind and wanted to get out. No photo of mine matched it. Fortunately.

After reading a feature in “American Photo” (collectors issue, March/April 2009), I decided to take closer look at Annie Leibovitz photographs in her book “Photographer’s life 1990-2005”. There were some photographs in the article, and I was ready for a treat. Disclaimer- I have not seen much of her work before the book.

What a dissappointment the album was. The majority of the images were, in my opinion, ugly. I can understand naturalistic way of showing life.  I can  understand why her family, captured in every day scenes, was not looking their best. I can understand it was intentional. But even famous and beautiful otherwise people were portraied in very not flattering way. Just to compare to something else I saw recently- I think old and worn people in “Within the frame” were looking better than Cindy Crawford in Leibovitz book. I am not saying they were not interesting photographically. Art is not my field. I simply did not like any of them. As much as I found many of them to be far to personal to be shown to me.

If anybody reading the blog has different opinion, please share.