The New Portrait: A Study in Three Parts

The Iconographic Portrait
Long recognized as the gold standard for celebrity portraiture, Annie Leibovitz is equally well known for refusing to sacrifice her private life on the altar of public celebrity. But in Leibovitz's most recent retrospective, A Photographer's Life: 1990-2005, we are finally allowed to glimpse the sanctum sanctorum. At age 57, Leibovitz is working to reinvent herself by sharing her reportage work and intimate snapshots of her family and her partner, the writer Susan Sontag (shown here), who died in 2004.