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Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens first published by Film4

Summary: Barbara Leibovitz’s broad-ranging documentary brings the life of her celebrated photographer sister into sharp focus.

Review: About half an hour into Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens, we see the celebrated photographer leaning in close to talk with her friend, the ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov. “This is true – right here – us”, she says, adding by way of contrast (as she points to the camera in her hand): “This, this is not true.” Later, as the final credits roll, we see a similar image of Leibovitz and Baryshnikov together, with Leibovitz’s camera left discarded in the foreground of the shot.

The paradox, of course, is that even here our only access to what is “true” is through a lens – in this case that of the documentary’s director Barbara Leibovitz. Just as Annie will reject