Annie Lennox: the ‘visual biography’ “retrospective” comes out
Annie Lennox has announced the release of a “visual memoir”. “Retrospective”this is the title, is its first official book, contains over 200 images, including Polaroid, portraits, frames of music videos and album covers, as well as personal anecdotes. The book will be published on September 16th.
As reported by Lennox herself, “there have been thousands of photographic images that float in the Zeitgeist over the decades of my life as an artist. In a certain sense, each of them is part of the story in Puzzle in my story. With ‘Retrospective’, I wanted to retrace the work of my life lived under the gaze of the public, during the creation of music, texts, recordings and films”.
The press release of the publisher, on the other hand, recites: “During a career almost half a century long, Annie Lennox has established himself as one of the real superstars of pop music and an icon of popular culture. With Dave Stewart as a member of the Eurythmics in successes such as” Sweet Dreams (are made of this) “,” Who’s That Girl? “And” Here Comes The Rain Again “. As a solo artist, he is responsible for some of the most memorable images created around music.
Lennox was filmed and photographed by many of the great creators of images of our time, from Richard Avedon And Paolo Roversi to Bettina Rheims and Ellen von Unwerth. With Polaroid from his personal archives, iconic portraits, frames of music videos and record covers, ‘Annie Lennox: retrospective’ It collects over two hundred images to create an illustrated memoir of the life of a creative, both in the spotlight and far from them.
Made in close collaboration with Annie Lennoxthis volume chronologically traces the musician’s entire life and career: from the early 70s, when he met Dave Stewartcontinuing with the Eurythmics in the 80s, and then as a solo artist from the 90s. Extracts of his texts accompany the photographs. Personal captions and anecdotes illuminate periods of his life, to tell the stories that are hidden behind the images.
