A giant, pictorial retrospective: one of a hundred

Schwarzenegger, Arnold / Leibovitz, Annie. ARNOLD. Annie Leibovitz Art Edition.

€ 25,000.00

One of an edition of 100, this being No. 80, numbered and signed by Arnold Schwarzenegger, with a framed ChromaLuxe print, numbered and signed by Annie Leibovitz.

A decade of collaboration in the making, this photo tribute covers 75 years of Schwarzenegger, from the future Terminator’s impoverished childhood in Thal, Austria, to his rise as a young athlete, his journey to America to become the most celebrated bodybuilder of all time, to his career as the world’s leading action film star, then into the California governor’s mansion and beyond. Along the journey, Arnold’s muscular body, chiselled features, and charismatic personality made him a favourite subject of photographers, including Richard Avedon, Annie Leibovitz, Robert Mapplethorpe, Herb Ritts, Francesco Scavullo, and Andy Warhol. The big book includes them all, while the smaller companion volume gives you more intimate images, as well as exclusive interviews with Arnold and directors Ivan Reitman and Bob Rafelson, and top bodybuilding legends.

The Art Edition, limited to a total press run of one hundred copies, includes a nearly life-size print of Arnold on the ski slopes, taken by Annie Leibovitz for the June 1997 cover of Vanity Fair, printed directly on aluminium. In addition, the Art Edition includes a unique book stand: a 1:2 scale reproduction of the iconic Capitello chair, famously created by Studio65 in 1971 and produced by Gufram. Its pop subversion of the classic Greek Ionic capital and column is a fitting homage to the Greek ideal embodied by Arnold’s famous physique.