My parents own a Rolling Stone Magazine coffee table book, which includes many photographs that Annie Leibovitz took during the 1970s and early 1980s.  I remember paging through this book when I was a child, and marveling at the detail in each of Leibovitz’s photos.  Thus began my love of photography, which I continued to foster during high school and college, where I suppose you could say I was formally introduced to Leibovitz. 

I have continued to follow her career, and being an avid reader of the Conde Nast publications, I just had to visit the exhibit when it came to Southern California.  This art show includes over 200 photographs, and range from Leibovitz’s professional shots taken for Vanity Fair and Vogue, to landscapes taken while on vacation, to photos of her family.  The exhibit as a whole is hard to describe, but is definitely one of the best collections of photographic art I have seen in a long time.   Note:  the best photos are at the end.

The San Diego Museum of Art in Balboa Park through April 22.  Admission is $10.00.

The tentative dates for additional exhibits across the country are as follows:

High Museum of Art, Atlanta:  May 12–September 9, 2007
Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C.:
 October 13, 2007–January 13, 2008
de Young Museum, San Francisco:  February 9–May 11, 2008

www.sdmart.org/exhibition-annie-leibovitz.html

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