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Annie Leibovitz's Reading List

“I became a photographer because of ‘The World of Henri Cartier-Bresson,’ which was published when I was a student at the San Francisco Art Institute,” says Annie Leibovitz, whose latest book of photographs is “Wonderland.” “I was studying painting. Maybe it was something about the word ‘world,’ as well as the pictures, that seduced me.”

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By the Book: Annie Leibovitz (2022)

NYT By the Book column (2022-01-13).

Source: www.nytimes.com

Cover of Little Women
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott · 1868 · Buy on Amazon
"I spent time in Ralph Waldo Emerson's library and at Orchard House, where Louisa May Alcott wrote Little Women. There was some thought that I would illustrate a new edition of Little Women."
Cover of Between the World and Me
Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates · 2015 · Buy on Amazon
"Ta-Nehisi Coates's Between the World and Me."
Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie · Buy on Amazon
"Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah."
Just Mercy
Bryan Stevenson · Buy on Amazon
"Bryan Stevenson's Just Mercy."
Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness
Alexandra Fuller · Buy on Amazon
"I especially like Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness, about her mother."
The World of Henri Cartier-Bresson
Henri Cartier-Bresson · Buy on Amazon
"I became a photographer because of The World of Henri Cartier-Bresson, which was published when I was a student at the San Francisco Art Institute. The pictures have been etched in my mind for over 50 years."
Hold Still
Sally Mann · Buy on Amazon
"Sally Mann is a great storyteller. In her memoir, Hold Still, she manages to talk about her work so that it is understandable in the context of her life."
Cover of Mrs. Dalloway
Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf · Buy on Amazon
"Susan said to me that if she read as slowly as I do, she wouldn't read anything. She asked me to make a reading list, which included Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway."
The Lyrics
Paul McCartney · Buy on Amazon
"Paul McCartney's The Lyrics, a two-volume book set that tells Paul's story through his songs. It's filled with so much life."

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