Annie Leibovitz at the Brooklyn Museum

Annie Leibovitz’s photos feature in an exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum. The work encompasses her personal and professional photographs. For me the personal photographs of her mother, her father’s death and her partner Susan Sontag’s deterioration due to cancer were very powerful. Her celebrity portraits include Johnny Cash, Nicole Kidman, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Patti Smith and William Burroughs. Her image of a pregnant Demi Moore’s belly with her and her husband Bruce Willis, masculine hands over her belly was inspiring.

Even though the NYT panned her exhibit, I found her family portraits, some of her celebrity images and her photographs of Jordan very strong and moving.