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The celebrated photographer Annie Leibovitz, author of the New York Times bestseller A Photographer’s Life, provides the stories, and technical description, of how some of her most famous images came to be in At Work. Starting in 1974, with her coverage of Nixon’s resignation, and culminating with her controversial portraits of Queen Elizabeth II early in 2007, Leibovitz explains what professional photographers do and how they do it.

The photographer in this instance is the most highly paid and prolific person in the business. Approximately 90 images are discussed in detail—the circumstances under which they were taken, and the specific technical information. The Rolling Stones’ tour in 1975, the famous nude session with John Lennon and Yoko Ono hours before Lennon was killed, the American Express and Gap campaigns, Whoopi Goldberg in a bathtub of milk, Demi Moore pregnant and naked on the cover of Vanity Fair, and coverage of the couture collections in Paris with Puff Daddy and Kate Moss are among the subjects of this original and informative work. The photos and stories are arranged chronologically, moving from film to digital.