Directed by:
Barbara LeibovitzCinematography:
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Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens traces the arc of Annie's photographic life, her aspirations to artistry and the trajectory of her career. The film depicts the various phases that shaped her life including childhood, the tumultuous sixties, her transition from Rolling Stone to Vanity Fair magazine and later her most significant personal relationships including motherhood. The documentary's highlights center on interviews with her most famous subjects, mentors and colleagues, along with personal insight from Leibovitz herself, to reveal the evolution of inarguably one of today's most influential visual artists. (official distributor synopsis)
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We don’t find out how the subject of this documentary perceives her “evolution” from an independent, almost underground photographer capturing reality to a purely commercial photographer famous for stylised images. Nor do we learn much about how she works or what that has to do with family and male-female relationships in general, but we see that she creates photographs so captivating that the desire to know any of the above falls away. Thanks to the internet, I will pore over her work in speechless amazement for a few more days. The documentary is weak; the attraction is powerful. 60%
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Annie Leibovitz is a world-famous figure in the field of photography, and if the documentary only focused on her personality, it would without a doubt be worth five stars. The trouble is that the film itself is somewhat routine and a one-dimensional promotional affair, as it resigns from a healthy critical distance and indulges in the world of celebrities who praise how well the photographer managed to capture their exterior and stroke their egos. The heroine of the film is depicted as another artistic celebrity, and we cannot create a more plastic image of her. Overall impression: 65%.
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