Annie Liebowitz ?

[Ramiro Elena]

They are all pretty bad, not just hers. Terrible I would say.

If you fancy a good laugh look at the 2009 Lavazza calendar - "Annie Leibovitz interprets Italian style in seven photographs featuring some of the icons that best represent Italian culture". In September this means a naked girl in a bowl of spaghetti, and in January a model in a fur, posing as the wolf that breast fed Romulus and Remus and featuring the Colosseum hamfistedly photoshopped into the background. Two of the worst photographs I've ever seen by a big name.

http://www.lavazza.com/corporate/en/...dars/2009.html

[Steve Smith]

They are all pretty bad, not just hers. Terrible I would say.

Yes, they are all terrible. Particularly the spaghetti girl.


Steve.

[John Conway]

My wife is still upset that I never look at the book, A Photographer's Life Annie Leibovitz 1990-2005. I should have returned it right away and bought something I like with the 75.00. Oh well.

[Lenny Eiger]

Maybe it's me.

No, its her. (And them.)

She's a snapshot artist. Not the same as someone with some depth. Her images are very commercial and if you like that, its fine. I want more from photography.

Return the book and get something you like.... life's too short and you don't have to suffer.

Lenny

[SergeiR]

Some of her stuff is great. Some is uber-average (i hate shots done with Her Majesty and ads with Sean Connery...).
But then no one is automaton and could produce fantastic stuff with every shutter actuation. That said - never was able to force myself to buy any of her albums. Unlike ,for example, L.Bassman's

[toyotadesigner]

http://www.lavazza.com/corporate/en/...dars/2009.html

Well, that isn't photography, that's Photoshop and pixel squeezing. Any idiot with profound PS knowledge and experience could do it.

[sully75]

My wife is still upset that I never look at the book, A Photographer's Life Annie Leibovitz 1990-2005. I should have returned it right away and bought something I like with the 75.00. Oh well.

Like anyone else, I'd say you can't judge someone based on one book. That book and the pilgrimages book are pretty tepid. American Music and Women...there's a lot of really good stuff in there. If not to emulate as art, pretty instructional about how to make good photographs.

My opinion, anyway.