Women: New Portraits by Annie Leibovitz
Interesting exhibition at Wapping Hydraulic Power Station of new portraits of women by Annie Liebovitz. There were some lovely images and I liked the way they were presented. The first section gave a quick overview of other pictures of or about women she had done and it was nice to see the picture of Virginia Woolf’s writing desk from Monk’s House. The main section just showed the new pictures with the descriptions off to one side. This made you look at the pictures without always recognising the sitter and then go back and see who they were. It made you think about the person and their setting and had an equalising effect. On the other three sides of the gallery were big screens, two with changing displays and one with her new portrait of the Queen. My favourite images included Doris Kearns Goodwin reading an a study, Sheryl Sandberg curled up on a desk chair, a beautiful picture of Russian model Natalia Vodianova against a huge architectural horse sculpture in a dress of...