How does a single image capture an entire era? Time and again, the answer can be found in Annie Leibovitz’s provocative photographs, which have become as famous as the celebrities who are her subjects. In iconographic images such as her Rolling Stone cover portrait of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, taken hours before Lennon’s death, or her Vanity Fair cover portrait of a naked, pregnant Demi Moore, Leibovitz reveals the vulnerability that lies beneath celebrity.

Leibovitz’ most recent collection, A Photographer’s Life 1990—2005, explores the line between the private and the public in new ways, by contrasting her celebrity and political portraits with photojournalism from Sarajevo, landscape photography of the American west and intimate pictures of her family and friends. Leibovitz will publish a new book in the fall and her appearance in Portland is one of only four that she will make in 2008.

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