ArtScience MuseumTM at Marina Bay Sands, Singapore is would present
the works of Annie Leibovitz in Singapore. Featuring close to 200 photographs,
the exhibition Annie Leibovitz A Photographer’s Life 1990-2005 will open on 18
April 2014.
Annie Leibovitz is one of America's best-known living
artists and most celebrated photographers. She began her career as a staff
photographer with rock music magazine Rolling Stone in 1970. At Vanity Fair,
and later at Vogue, she developed a large body of work —portraits of actors,
directors, writers, musicians, athletes, politicians and business figures, as
well as fashion photographs — that expanded her collective portrait of contemporary
life.
Annie Leibovitz A Photographer’s Life 1990 – 2005 provides a
unified narrative of Annie Leibovitz’s private life against the backdrop of her
public image. At the heart of the exhibition is the personal memoir of Annie
Leibovitz, documenting a particular timeframe within her life, including the
loss of close relations, birth and childhood of her three daughters, family vacations,
reunions, and close friends.
“We are delighted to have the opportunity to showcase the work
of one of the world’s most celebrated photographers at ArtScience Museum. The
striking power of Annie’s photographs captures the essence of the subject in a
unique and visceral fashion. ArtScience Museum is the perfect venue for an exhibition showcasing the art of
such an iconic photographer whose works have captured significant milestones
for many generations,” said Ms. Honor Harger, Executive Director, ArtScience
Museum.
Portraits of well-known figures, including actors and artists
such as Leonardo Di Caprio, Jamie Foxx, the pregnant Demi Moore, Scarlett
Johansson, Nicole Kidman and Brad Pitt will be on display at the exhibition.
Other featured images of Annie Leibovitz A Photographer’s Life 1990-2005
include Leibovitz’s reportage from the siege of Sarajevo in the 1990s and the election
of Hillary Clinton to the US Senate. The exhibition will also showcase a series
of landscapes taken in Monument Valley in the American West and in the
Jordanian desert’s Wadi Rum.
A recipient of many honors, including the 2009 Centenary
Medal from the Royal Photographic Society, London, and the 2012 Los Angeles
Museum of Contemporary Art Award to Distinguished Women in the Arts, Leibovitz
has been designated a Living Legend by the Library of Congress in Washington,
DC.
Annie Leibovitz A Photographer’s Life 1990 – 2005 will run
from 18 April until 19 October 2014.
This critically acclaimed exhibition opened in 2006 at the Brooklyn Museum in
New York and has since appeared at the San Diego Museum of Art, the High Museum
of Art in Atlanta, the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and the
Legion of Honor in San Francisco. It has also toured museums in Paris, London,
Berlin, Madrid, Vienna, Stockholm, Sydney, Moscow and St. Petersburg. Singapore
is one of only two cities in Asia, after an appearance in Seoul to host the
exhibition.
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