Photographs: Annie Leibovitz 1970-1990.

Photographs: Annie Leibovitz 1970-1990 (1991) is the definitive retrospective monograph of one of the most celebrated and consequential photographers of the twentieth century, gathering more than 200 reproductions across two decades of work that transformed American portrait photography and redefined the relationship between photographer and subject in both editorial and commercial contexts. Published in conjunction with a landmark exhibition organized by the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., Leibovitz became the very first woman and only the second living photographer to be awarded this honor by the Gallery, with the exhibition traveling internationally through 1997. The volume encompasses Leibovitz's full trajectory from her early documentary work at Rolling Stone, where she became chief photographer in 1973 and produced her celebrated coverage of the Rolling Stones tours and a generation of rock musicians, through her transition to Vanity Fair beginning in 1983 and the increasingly elaborate and conceptually sophisticated portrait commissions that defined her mature style, including images of John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Muhammad Ali, Ella Fitzgerald, and Ray Charles.