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What Annie Leibovitz's most famous photo is called may be surprising. Most historians state that the image of John Lennon and Yoko Ono that the photographer snapped for the January 1981 cover of Rolling Stone is her most famous work. However, it does not have a title apart from “John Lennon and Yoko Ono, The Dakota, New York, December 8, 1980” which refers merely to its subjects and when and where it was taken (it has also appeared online as simply “John Lennon and Yoko Ono”). Leibovitz took the photo on the same day that John Lennon was assassinated outside his apartment. She has previously called it "the photograph of my life." On 1stDibs, find a collection of Annie Leibovitz photography.
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Whoopi Goldberg, California, 1984 Signed, Framed, ChromaLuxe aluminium Print
By Annie Leibovitz
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Art Edition “Whoopi Goldberg” (No. 1–450). Hardcover volume in a slipcase, accompanied by the portrait Whoopi Goldberg, Berkeley, California, 1984.
For over 50 years, Annie Leibovit...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Dye Transfer
David Byrne, Los Angeles, 1986 Signed, Framed, ChromaLuxe aluminium Print
By Annie Leibovitz
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Art Edition “David Byrne” (No. 1–275). Hardcover volume in a slipcase, accompanied by the portrait David Byrne, Los Angeles, 1986.
For over 50 years, Annie Leibovitz has been creating a body of work that is unequaled in breadth and influence. From the viscerally immediate reportage made for Rolling Stone magazine in the 1970s and extending through the more stylized portraiture of her work for Vanity Fair and Vogue, her pictures make up what is essentially a family album of our time.
In 2014, in close collaboration with Annie, TASCHEN published a SUMO edition of her work: over 200 photographs, many of them famous (the naked John Lennon entwined in a last embrace with Yoko Ono, Patti Smith on fire) and some rarely, if ever, seen before. In 2022, to accommodate a wider audience, this volume was recreated as an unlimited XXL edition.
The XXL volume is now available as an Art Edition in four different versions, each accompanied by a signed, numbered and framed dye-sublimation ChromaLuxe aluminum print. David Byrne, Los Angeles, 1986 is included in an edition of 275 copies.
In 1986, David Byrne wrote, directed and starred in his only feature film, True Stories. It was a quirky view of life in small-town rural Texas. Several of his collaborators on the project were from the downtown New York performing-arts world. Music was an integral element in the film and much of it was supplied by Byrne’s band, the Talking Heads...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Dye Transfer
Ella FITZERALD " Mercédès " 1988
By Annie Leibovitz
Located in CANNES, FR
Annie Leibovitz ( 1949- )
photo : 24 x19 cm .
Ella Fitzgerald devant un cabriolet Mercedes . 1988
Original Vintage work .
Framed : 42 X 42 cm
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Keith Haring, 1986
By Annie Leibovitz
Located in Calabasas, CA
Artist: Annie Leibovitz
Title: Keith Haring, 1986
Year: 1986-2023
Medium: Dye-sublimation Chroma Luxe aluminum print with floating frame
Dimensions: 19 7/10 x 24 1/10 x 1 in (50 x 61...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Dye Transfer
Annie Leibovitz, Art Ed, SUMO book, Marc Newson stand, Black & White photography
By Annie Leibovitz
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Annie’s Big Book
Famed photographer Annie Leibovitz weighs in with her own SUMO
Art Edition (No. 1–1,000)
Archival pigment print Keith Haring (contact sheet), New York City, 1986...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Taschen, Annie Leibovitz by Annie Leibovitz - Whoopi Goldberg Edition
By Annie Leibovitz
Located in London, GB
The TASCHEN book on Annie Leibovitz is a tribute to the photographer's illustrious career, renowned for her intimate and iconic portraits of celebrities and cultural icons. From her ...
Category
2010s Contemporary More Art
Materials
Digital, Archival Pigment