Annie Leibovitz - Limited Edt. (Keith Haring)

Signed by Annie Leibovitz

LIMITED TO A TOTAL OF 10,000 SIGNED AND NUMBERED COPIES, THIS BOOK IS AVAILABLE AS COLLECTOR’S EDITION (NO. 1,001–10,000) AND ALSO AS AN ART EDITION (NO. 1–1,000) WITH A FINE ART PRINT AND THE FULL SET OF ALL FOUR COVERS.

A limited edition of 9,000 signed and numbered copies, the Annie Leibovitz SUMO presents some of the most famed actors, musicians, artists, writers, athletes, and businesspeople of our time. Available in four different cover photos, this at once intimate and iconic portrait collection is presented with a Marc Newson designed book stand and a supplementary essay compendium.Collector’s Edition (No. 1,001–10,000), signed by Annie Leibovitz, with a tripod bookstand by Marc Newson.When Benedikt Taschen asked the most important portrait photographer working today to collect her pictures in a SUMO-sized book, she was intrigued and challenged. The project took several years to develop and proved to be revelatory.

Annie Leibovitz drew from over 40 years of work, starting with the viscerally intimate reportage she created for Rolling Stone magazine in the 1970s and extending through the more stylized portraiture of her work for Vanity Fair and Vogue. Celebrated images such as John Lennon and Yoko Ono entwined in a last embrace are printed alongside portraits that have rarely, and sometimes never before, been seen. Annie Leibovitz was able to present some of her famous group portraits in a format that proves that she is the master of the genre. Her pictures are at once intimate and iconic, wide-ranging stylistically and also uniquely hers. Annie Leibovitz is often imitated, particularly by younger photographers, but her work is somehow immediately recognizable.The bookends of the Leibovitz collection are the black-and-white photograph of Richard Nixon’s helicopter lifting off from the White House lawn after he resigned as president in 1974 and the formal color portrait of Queen Elizabeth II taken in a drawing room of Buckingham Palace in 2007.

In between are portraits that make up a family album of our time: actors, dancers, comedians, musicians, artists, writers, performance artists, journalists, athletes, businesspeople. Performance and power are recurring themes. A supplementary book contains essays by Annie Leibovitz, Graydon Carter, Hans Ulrich Obrist, and Paul Roth and short texts describing the subjects of each of the over 250 photographs.The Collector’s Edition is available in four different covers:Whoopi Goldberg, Berkeley, California, 1984Keith Haring, New York City, 1986David Byrne, Los Angeles, 1986Patti Smith, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1978Hardcover with 8 fold-outs. Both editions come with a tripod book stand designed by Marc Newson.Bookstand Measurements

Distance between each leg: 86 cm (34 in.)Platform: 78 x 62.5 cm (31 x 27 in.) Height when positioned horizontally: 90 cm (35 in.)Height when in display position: back 98 cm (39 in.), front 83 cm (33 in.)