Annie Leibovitz's 'Stream of Consciousness' Opens at Hauser & Wirth New York

Annie Leibovitz's exhibition 'Stream of Consciousness' opened at Hauser & Wirth in Chelsea, New York, running until January 11, 2025. The show breaks from her usual chronological format, presenting landscapes, portraits, and still lifes in associative juxtapositions. It includes iconic images of writers, artists, and celebrities—Amy Sherald, Billie Eilish, Salman Rushdie—alongside never-before-exhibited works: portraits of Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson and Stephen Hawking, plus historical ephemera like Abraham Lincoln's top hat and Elvis Presley's bullet-riddled television. Leibovitz, born in 1949 in Connecticut, began photographing in 1968 while a student at the San Francisco Art Institute. She started at Rolling Stone in 1970, became chief photographer in 1973, and produced 142 covers over 13 years, blurring lines between celebrity and civilian. The exhibition's title reflects her associative method: images from different times and places resonate together, as she noted, 'the red hill of Georgia O'Keeffe, the portrait of Joan Didion in Central Park—they rhyme with photographs of other places, other times.' The vernissage saw the artist greeting guests with a Diet Coke can in hand.