This morning, I set off to San Francisco to try and catch the Annie Leibowitz exhibition before it leaves the Legion of Honor. It turns out that I was not the only one with this in mind; the exhibition was crowded with people. I left the exhibition rather unenthused; while some of the more personal photographs (particularly those with Sarah Sontag) were touching, the vast majority were portraits of celebrities or politicians without evoking any real feeling behind it. This mixture of personal and professional life was touched upon in the exhibit, but not presented as much as I would have liked; some of the most disappointing photographs presented were large landscape photos, displayed as entire walls; the choice of the photos left much to be desired; blurry, grainy colorless landscapes.
I recommend Annie Leibovitz's book: A Photographer's Life: 1990-2005 instead of seeing the exhibition; the exhibition is merely a small subset of the photographs within the book.
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