When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph. As if to demonstrate its author's point, A Photographer's Life follows Annie Leibovitz through 15 years of camera encounters, recapturing her lens snaps of presidents, actors, authors, war orphans, sports stars, musicians, and her own children. Her family portraits add balance and ballast to her studies of international celebrities. Those searching for the latter will find them here in abundance: William Burroughs, George W. Bush, Joan Didion, Patti Smith, Johnny Cash, Nicole Kidman, Keith Richards, Jack Nicholson, Nelson Mandela, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Michael Jordan, and more.