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Journal Article
Cancer Narratives and an Ethics of Commemoration: Susan Sontag, Annie Leibovitz, and David Rieff
2009
Overview
Leibovitz's A Photographer's Life, both the 2006 book and the traveling exhibition housed from October 2008 to February 2009 at the National Portrait Gallery in London and more recently shown in Berlin, Madrid, and Vienna, consists of large, airbrushed, highly stylized, lushly colored photos of celebrities that have earned her the designation \"American master\" and a series of mostly small, informal black and white photos of her parents, children, siblings, friends, and lover.7 Of the 341 images contained in the book, which Leibovitz calls \"a memoir in photographs,\" more than two-thirds are personal, and approximately a hundred of these depict Sontag.8 In many photos she appears as a traveler reflecting upon an exotic landscape, an artist at work either writing or directing theatre, a woman engaged in conversation with friends or gazing at her lover's newborn child, or a domestic partner relaxing in a shared and sometimes eroticized space, most often bath or bed.
