In case you haven’t seen it and have been meaning to go, the Annie Leibovitz show at the Legion of Honor is about to close on Sunday, May 25th. It is a major retrospective show, and well-worth catching while it’s still on the walls.

Leibovitz is originally from Connecticut, but she has San Francisco roots too: she studied at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1967, and only moved back East when the quirky magazine she’d been working for — Rolling Stone — moved to New York in 1977. In the 1970s and 1980s she made her name as a celebrity photographer: she’s renowned for her ability to get famous, over-photographed people to drop their defenses and be naked — emotionally if not physically — before the lens. You already know her work pretty well: her best-known image is that of John Lennon, curled up nude next to a fully-clothed Yoko Ono. (The picture was taken hours before he was killed.) And remember the one of a nude, pregnant Demi Moore in profile, on the cover of Vanity Fair? Also Leibovitz.

Here’s an intelligent interview with her in the Chronicle regarding the show; if you’re way way interested, you should also check out this review of the show by Joyce Carol Oates, published in the New York Review of Books back in January of last year. (The main library has it available for free on floor five.)

Getting to the Legion of Honor on Muni is highly recommended, especially in weather like this. But avoid the Geary line. Instead, take the N-Judah out to 46th Avenue and transfer to the 18-46th Avenue. Admission to the show itself is $15, $11 for students, free for museum members.