Annie Leibovitz, Collector's Edition

Famed photographer Annie Leibovitz weighs in with her own SUMO 

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. 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 and Yoko entwined in a last embrace are printed alongside portraits that have rarely, and sometimes never before, been seen. 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. Leibovitz is often imitated, particularly by younger photographers, but her work is somehow immediately recognizable.

The Collector’s Edition is available in four different dust jackets:

Born in Sydney, Australia, Marc Newson studied jewelry and sculpture at Sydney College of the Arts before moving to Tokyo. Now living and working in Paris and London, Newson has become one of the world’s most accomplished and influential designers.

Distance between each leg: 86 cm (34 in.)

Platform: 78 x 62.5 cm (31 x 27 in.)

Height when positioned horizontally: 90 cm (35 in.)

Height when in display position: back 98 cm (39 in.), front 83 cm (33 in.)