Annie Leibovitz usually lets her photographs tell the story, but at an exhibition of her work in Sydney she was doing the talking, SBS' Kumi Taguchi reports.
Her latest exhibition, 'A Photographer's Life', showcases about 200 images spanning a 15-year period from 1990.
And while keen to stress every photo is part of a life's body of work, Leibovitz does have her favourites.
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"Obviously doing someone like the Queen of England was a pretty extraordinary moment for me, to go into Buckingham Palace and carry it off well. That was sort of a peak, a peak moment," she told SBS.
Then there are the celebrities -- Brad Pitt photographed in Las Vegas in 1994, Nicole Kidman on a Broadway stage eight years ago and a young Mikhail Baryshnikov on Cumberland Island, Georgia, captured in 1990.
Leibovitz is most known for her images of celebrity, but this exhibition is a little different.
"I don't have two lives," she says, "this is one life, and the personal pictures and the assignment work are all part of it".
Family photos appear in the exhibition as well as images of her long-time partner, writer and essayist, Susan Sonstag, who died from cancer in 2004.
This exhibition is the most popular ticketed exhibition ever at Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art.
And while it may seem like a tribute to a woman whose images have defined a generation, Leibovitz has no plans to put down her camera any time soon.
"I feel very responsible just to finish it up - I mean, I'm going to do it as long as I can. There's 40 years so far and I think the idea is to keep adding to it," she said.
