Annie Leibovitz

One of the benefits of hosting a house guest is that you get to participate in local activities that otherwise might pass you by. The current exhibition Annie Leibovitz - A Photographer's Life 1990-2005 at Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art might have been one example except that in this case I would have gone to see the exhibition in any event.

The exhibition is an unusual blend of two categories of Leibovitz's work. On the one hand her commercial photography focusing on celebrity and on the other her personal work documenting her family members and long time companion Susan Sontag. The latter body of work is confronting in parts but as a whole the exhibition is fascinating.