Annie Leibovitz

A Complete Picture - washingtonpost.com:

"Fifteen years of it, to be precise, the part she's collected in her new book, 'A Photographer's Life: 1990-2005,' whose 472 pages her visitor is flipping through now. It's a startling compilation, including as it does both previously unseen images of her family and her companion, Susan Sontag -- who died in December 2004, just weeks before Leibovitz's father -- and the trademark portraits that shout out to celebrity worshipers from the pages of Vanity Fair.

Different planets? Not to the photographer. Her book title says 'life,' not 'lives.' Yet the private and the public work -- and the way Leibovitz talks about them -- can feel shockingly at odds."