Annie Leibovitz at the Brooklyn Museum

The exhibit was really successful portraying Annie Leibovitz in a personal as well as professional aspect of her life through all her photographs divided in these two parts and sorted chronologically. This two bodies of works complement each other because is an interesting way to learn how is the life of the photographer through photos as well as the way her personal life experience is projected through the way she approaches the themes of her works.

My Father, February 3, 2005 Gelatin Silver Print after Susan was buried in Paris a week later she photographed her father death in his sleep early in the mourning and her mom holding him. This picture was taken in the room of her father because he didn’t want to go to the hospital. I think this picture was really strong in portraying her father death because it was in black and white and there was a predominant dark tone in the picture. The face of her father looked like sleeping peacefully. I really cant imagine how she felt having to lose two of her most important figures of her life one after another in such a short notice.

The US Olympic Synchronized swimming team, Culver City, California 1996 Gelatin Silver Print. This picture is in black and white and only shows the outlines of four Athletes swimming under water but she uses like the negative of the picture, which the color value is reverted because the four dynamic bodies of the athletes are white and the water is black. I find this picture interesting because the water and the bodies shows a dynamic movement.

The influence of the artist life its what shapes the style of the artist work as a professional photographer. Then you can understand the way that the she thinks and the way she interprets life portrait through her works.

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