PHOTOGRAPHS. [Introduction by Tom Wolfe]

New York: Pantheon/Rolling Stone Press, 1983. First Edition, First Issue, AUTOGRAPHED BY ANNIE LEIBOVITZ. With a great profusion of photographs, nearly all in colour, some extending from one page to the next, some double-page, and all, at least full-page. 4to, publisher's original olive-gray linen over boards, the spine lettered in white, with the original colour illustrated dustjacket. Unpaginated. A pristine copy, both the book and dustjacket essentially as mint. A FINE ANNIE LEIBOVITZ FIRST EDITION, AUTOGRAPHED BY HER. The first published collection of her photography. Tom Wolfe wrote in his Introduction that "...in these pages we see glamour succumbing to that great passion of the Sixites, nostalgie de la boue, nostalgia for the mud. Quite aside from how they changed music itself, Elvis Presley and the Beatles removed the tuxedos, fox-trots, and Mid-Atlantic accents from show business stardom. They talked Down Home, they acted Low Rent, and they made it glamorous for stars to look like raw vital proles....The true inheritors and emperors of the mud were the Rolling Stones. One of Annie Leibovitz's most successful portraits is of the Rolling Stones after a 2 1/2 hour concert in Los Angeles, in 1975. In that picture you have it all...late-Twentieth-Century glamour in a glowing porcine coat of sweat. But some of the poses in these pages can only be accounted for by the Leibovitz influence. I can't imagine what, other than that, induced Lauren Hutton to pose nude in a mud bath...or Calvin Kline to pose like Sabu gone coy...and I don't even want to conjecture about Robert Penn Warren....Annie Leibovitz transcends the business at hand--namely, the celebrity photograph--and gives us a stiff whiff of the whole gorgeously nutty era of...Dylan, Mick Jagger, Bruce Springsteen [and many more]....[All through] the antic eye of their portraitist.