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Annie Leibovitz Takes Steps to Regain Financial Footing

Three months after averting, at least temporarily, a foreclosure official canada goose outlet that could have cost her buy canada goose jacket the rights to her photographs and canada goose coats her homes, Annie Leibovitz is assembling an array canada Canada Goose Outlet goose outlet jackets of deals canada goose store in an effort canada goose factory outlet canada goose clearance sale to buy canada goose jacket cheap canada goose black friday sale regain her financial footing.

Ms. canada goose jacket outlet Leibovitz, 60, has issued high priced limited edition sets of her photographs, talked to publishers about potential book deals and consulted with financiers about offering bonds akin to canada goose outlet the ones David Bowie canada goose coats on sale once sold, backed by revenue from his music catalog, said sources familiar with her business dealings.

Ms. Leibovitz’s problems were well chronicled last summer as canada goose outlet reviews she faced a Sept. 8 deadline to pay back $24 million in loans she owed to Art Capital Group, an art world lender that had canada goose outlet black friday taken the rights to her photos and her canada goose black friday sale real estate as https://www.canadagooseparkasoutlet.ca collateral.

Art Capital sued her in July 2009, claiming that Ms. Leibovitz, one of the world’s most famous photographers, had engaged in “boldly deceptive conduct” and failed to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars due under its agreements with her.

Three days after the September canada goose outlet store uk deadline, a joint statement from Ms. Leibovitz and Art Capital announced that the suit cheap canada goose uk had been settled, the debt restructured and the deadline to pay it back extended.

As part of that deal, Ms. That canada goose outlet canada caused Ms. Leibovitz’s debt to Art Capital to grow to about canada goose clearance $30 million, said a financial industry source who has consulted with Ms. Leibovitz about her debt, and who spoke canada goose outlet online uk anonymously because of a confidentiality agreement.

Since then Ms. Leibovitz canada goose outlet online has canada goose outlet new Canada Goose online york city been trying to leverage her photographic archive to pay off the debt. Through James Danziger, a gallery owner who had represented uk canada goose outlet Ms. Leibovitz from 1990 to 2000, she has begun selling a limited edition “Master Set” of 157 of her photographs. Only 10 sets are planned, and they cheap Canada Goose are being offered for up to $3.5 million a set, although the canada goose uk black friday prepublication price is lower, said Mr. Danziger in a phone interview from Miami. He was showing canada goose outlet uk samples at the Art Basel Miami Beach fair last weekend, including well known photographs of Queen Elizabeth and Cindy Crawford. The set includes images of Sontag, of Ms. Leibovitz’s children, and of landscapes. Leibovitz’s first Canada Goose Coats On Sale book of photography in 1974, is also helping to market the master sets. He canada goose said three had already been sold. Mr. Schiller would not reveal what buyers paid, but said some of the prepublication sets were being offered for $2.5 million.

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Mr. Schiller said canada goose outlet shop he had been helping Ms. Leibovitz take stock of her archives canada goose outlet store to determine how to use it to pay canadian goose jacket her debts, but in a measured fashion that would not suggest desperation.

Ms. Leibovitz still owes Random House a book under an existing goose outlet canada contract, but she has “been talking” with Benedikt Taschen, owner of the art book company Taschen, canada goose uk outlet said uk canada goose Amy Quinn, an assistant to Mr. Taschen.

Mr. Danziger declined to comment about any possible publishing deals, but said canada goose outlet nyc “there is interest in her work in terms of book Canada Goose Online sales, print assignments and advertising canada goose outlet in usa assignments.”

As she tries to increase her earnings, canada goose outlet toronto factory Ms. Leibovitz is also seeking to restructure her debt. She has met with the Pullman Group, the company that issued bonds based on the catalogs of Mr. Bowie, James canada goose outlet sale Canada Goose Jackets Brown, the Isley Brothers and others, according to the source who consulted with Ms. Leibovitz but canada goose is bound by confidentiality. But Ms. Leibovitz would have to demonstrate that her future Canada Goose sale earnings would arrive in a dependable and clearly accountable fashion before any bonds could be sold, the source said.

Despite the flurry of activity, Ms. Leibovitz is not yet in the clear. The entire loan is canada goose factory sale due next summer, the source said.

A mortgage filed with Canada Goose Parka New York City in October notes, partially in capital letters, the urgency and complexity of the agreements between Ms. Leibovitz and Art Capital: “TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE with respect to each and canada goose uk shop every covenant, agreement, and obligation of mortgagors under this canada goose outlet parka mortgage, the secured loan agreement and any and all of canada goose outlet uk sale the other loan documents.”.