2023
Annie Leibovitz is arguably one of the best-known photographers in the world.
Few photographers are household names. Even fewer can claim that the portraits they create are often as famous as the subjects they depict. Leibovitz qualifies on both counts.
Leibovitz has provided the public with views of movie stars, politicians, athletes, artists — you name it. Being shot by Leibovitz has been a rite of passage for celebrities of every stripe for decades: You’re not really famous until you’ve sat for her.
Graydon Carter, the longtime editor in chief of Vanity Fair, where Leibovitz has been on staff since 1983, compares her to both Frans Hals, a Dutch master of the formal portrait, and Jane Austen, a knowing chronicler of her epoch.
Although she’s technically inched past the age of retirement, Leibovitz shows no signs of slowing down — the whole world remembers the buzz over the gorgeous, groundbreaking photos she took of Caitlyn Jenner for the cover of Vanity Fair, but the hubbub surrounding the Jenner images was nothing new for the acclaimed photographer.
Throughout her career, Leibovitz has created portraits that generate cultural conversation, whether outraged, admiring, shocked or some amalgam of all three.
In celebration of the artist's incomparable work ethic, shop some of Annie Leibovitz's most revered photography on 1stDibs.
The Portraits Haring, Goldberg, Smith, Byrne Set 2023 by Annie Leibovitz
By Annie Leibovitz
Located in Zug, CH
Keith Haring Leibovitz’s portrait of Keith Haring is one of her most iconic shots that made the artist auction record in 2016. The photograph is proof of one of Leibovitz central th...
Dye, Color
Second Skin, Photoengraving, Contemporary Art, 21st Century, Japanese Art
By Chiharu Shiota
Located in Zug, CH
"Second Skin", 2014 Photoengraving Signed and numbered Edition of 30 In mint condition (as acquired from the publisher) The pieces are offered unframed Edition numbers might vary fro...
Photogravure
Essentials - Contemporary, 21st Century, Pigment Print, Limited Edition
By Robert Longo
Located in Zug, CH
Robert Longo, Essentials Contemporary, 21st Century, Pigment Print, Limited Edition Pigment print Edition of 75 174,4 x 32 cm (68.6 x 12.5 in.) Signed and numbered, accompanied by Ce...
Pigment
Starry Night - Contemporary, 21st Century, Lithograph, Limited Edition, Chinese
By Yue Minjun
Located in Zug, CH
Yue Minjun, Starry Night Lithograph Edition of 130 120 x 80 cm (47.2 x 31.5 in) Stamped Signature, numbered in Roman numerals In mint condition, as acquired from the publisher PLEAS...
Lithograph
Flowers, (After) Andy Warhol -Pop Art, Tapestry, Edition, Contemporary, Design
By Andy Warhol
Located in Zug, CH
(After) Andy Warhol Flowers, 1968 Hand Woven Wool Tapestry 183 x 183 cm (72 x 72 in) Edition of 20 With the knotted name ‘ANDY WARHOL’ lower right and the embroidered annotation ‘WARHOL ©’ on the reverse Published by Modern Master Tapestries, NY Throughout art history, the flower and its symbolism have been a subject matter for many renowned artists. Andy Warhol explored the qualities of the flower image through his Pop Art prism in the Flower series of 1964, thus creating cartoon-like symbols that would be instantly recognized. The 1964 Flower series became one of his most iconic and successful works. Based on a discovered photograph of hibiscus blossoms, Warhol drenched the flowers’ floppy shapes with a variation of vibrant colors, transforming them into psychedelic indoor décor. Playing with traditional art historical themes, Andy Warhol gave a particular twist to this historically accepted symbol of life. The electric colors of his flowers, drawn from a darker and rich undergrowth background might be the indicator of an extreme vision of life, a life lived on the edge. Andy Warhol (1928-1987) was an American artist, a leading figure of the Pop Art movement. Using a variety of media materials from photographs up to computer-generated art, Warhol's works explore the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity, culture and advertisement that flourished by the 1960s. Emerging from the poverty and obscurity of an Eastern European immigrant family in Pittsburgh, Warhol became a charismatic magnet for bohemian New York. In 1960, he began to produce his first canvases depicting Popeye and Dick Tracy. After Marilyn Monroe’s death in August 1962, he started working from snapshots of the star’s already legendary face, which had been widely distributed by the world’s press. His choice of subjects clearly relates to an obsession with demise – his Marilyns, his Ten Lizies (created when the actress Elizabeth Taylor was seriously ill), and also his Elvis. Part of the “Death and Disaster” series, Andy Warhol´s...
Tapestry, Wool
Cherry Bobalink Abstract Inkjet Print, Signed, Edition of 30, 2010+
By Larry Poons
Located in Zug, CH
Larry Poons Cherry Bobalink Epson Inkjet print with HDX Ultrachrome inks Edition of 30 Hand-signed and numbered in pencil on the recto In mint condition Published by Triangle Arts A...
Inkjet
21thC Annie Leibovitz Keith Haring Edition Sumo Sized Limited Edition Hardback
By Annie Leibovitz
Located in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
A 21st Century sumo sized limited edition hardback Annie Leibovitz by Annie Leibovitz, Keith Haring edition book on stand. Hand signed by Annie Leibovitz to the title page. It is in as new condition and released in 2014. When Benedikt Taschen asked the most important portrait photographer working today to collect her pictures in a SUMO-sized book, she was intrigued and challenged. The project took several years to develop and proved to be revelatory. Annie Leibovitz drew from over 40 years of work, starting with the viscerally intimate reportage she created for Rolling Stone magazine in the 1970s and extending through the more stylized portraiture of her work for Vanity Fair and Vogue. Celebrated images such as John Lennon and Yoko Ono entwined in a last embrace are printed alongside portraits that have rarely, and sometimes never before, been seen. Annie Leibovitz was able to present some of her famous group portraits in a format that proves that she is the master of the genre. Her pictures are at once intimate and iconic, wide-ranging stylistically and also uniquely hers. Annie Leibovitz is often imitated, particularly by younger photographers, but her work is somehow immediately recognizable. The bookends of the Leibovitz collection are the black-and-white photograph of Richard Nixon’s helicopter lifting off from the White House lawn after he resigned as president in 1974 and the formal color portrait of Queen Elizabeth II taken in a drawing room of Buckingham Palace in 2007. In between are portraits that make up a family album of our time: actors, dancers, comedians, musicians, artists, writers, performance artists, journalists, athletes, businesspeople. Performance and power are recurring themes. A supplementary book contains essays by Annie Leibovitz, Graydon Carter, Hans Ulrich Obrist, and Paul Roth and short texts describing the subjects of each of the over 250 photographs. The Collector’s Edition is available in four different covers - this is the 'Keith Haring, New York City, 1986' Edition This edition comes with a tripod book stand...
Metal
Keith Haring 1992 Nude Original Exhibition Poster, Offset Print
By Annie Leibovitz
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Original exhibition poster for “Annie Leibovitz: Photographs 1970–1990”, held at The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, from June 17 – July 26, 1992. The poster features a strik...
Offset
Annie Leibovitz x Keith Haring SUMO – Signed Limited Collector’s
By Keith Haring
Located in Oirlo, LI
A masterpiece of photography, art, and design — this extraordinary Annie Leibovitz SUMO Collector’s Edition is one of only 9,000 signed and numbered copies worldwide. This specific e...
Paper
Keith Haring Into 84 poster (vintage Keith Haring)
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring Into 84 exhibition poster: Vintage original 1980's poster designed by Keith Haring for his well-documented exhibition, 'Keith Haring: Into 84' at...
Lithograph, Offset
Modern Expressionists Catalogue 1984 (Basquiat Haring)
By Keith Haring
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Modern Expressionists Exhibition Catalogue 1984: Published on the occasion of Modern Expressionists: German, Italian and American Painters by Sidney Janis Gallery. Featuring works by...
Paper
Untitled 1984 Offset Print by Keith Haring, Framed, Vintage Art
By Keith Haring
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Keith Haring's 1984 untitled artwork, reproduced as a vintage offset lithograph postcard by Art Unlimited Amsterdam and printed in Holland, exemplifies his distinctive style characte...
Offset
See why the famed photographer's celebrity portraits have graced magazine covers and become headline grabbers in their own right for five decades and counting.
Created in the late 1950s, it’s one of a surprising number of holiday-themed works by the prolific Pop artist.
