The Real Annie Leibovitz Party

Today Jeff and I went to the real Annie Leibovitz Party. It was this evening at the Corcoran Museum. It was really nice - we got there early, and were on the guest list, so we were told we could go upstairs to the exhibition.

After a few minutes of chatting and enjoying some white wine, they opened the exhibit. Annie Leibovitz led a tour through the exhibit and talked about a number of different photographs. She explained the chronological order that she had chosen to use, and the idea that some of the photos were added to provide punctuation - to be representative of the time. She told a story about the picture with Demi Moore - that everyone had been worried about how to take photos of her that wouldn't show that she was pregnant. Then afterwards, Annie Leibovitz offered to take some photos just for Demi to have, and that's how the famous nude pregnant photo was taken. She said she thinks her best portrait is the one she took of her mother where she is about 70 years old and isn't smiling. Her mother and father both didn't really like it at first, but she felt it was a very 'real' photo. Her mother later decided that she liked it.

There was a large group of people that were downstairs at the museum that hadn't been a part of the guided tour, but were let upstairs to the exhibit after the tour had ended. One of the people took a picture of Annie Leibovitz as she was walking by him. Then she took his digital camera and held it out and took a picture of herself and the guy together. I just saw it from the other side of the room, but thought it was pretty funny.

Overall, Jeff and I had a very nice time tonight. It was really interesting to hear Annie Leibovitz talk about her art, and the exhibit is really great. (Thanks, Ross, for getting us tickets!)

Here's a link to the exhibition