Sunday, May 10, 2015

Annie Leibovitz Research


  • She started out only shooting black and white, and photographed for Rolling Stone magazine from 1970 to 1983.
  • Her Rolling Stone cover featuring Yoko Ono and John Lennon in 1980 is considered by some the best magazine cover in the last 50 years.
  • Published a book, Annie Leibovits: Photographs in 1983
  • She toured with the Rolling Stones for a long time and has said that she often got lost in that work. She doesn't regret it, but wishes she would have been more aware and done more
  • Joined Vanity Fair magazine in 1983, and was made first contributing photographer
  • She became known for her wildly lit, staged, and provocative portraits of celebrities at Vanity Fair. 
  • Some of her most famous shots there were Whoopi Goldberg submerged in a bath of milk, and Demi Moore naked and holding her pregnant belly, which stirred controversy, but is also a renowned cover. 
  • Leibovitz has photographed celebrities such as Brad Pitt, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Ellen DeGeneres, the George W. Bush cabinet, Michael Moore, Madeleine Albright, Bill Clinton, Scarlett Johannson, Keira Knightley, Tom Ford, Nicole Kidman, Suri Cruise with parents Tom and Katie, Kim Kardashian and Kanye West, BeyoncĂ©, Cate Blanchett, and countless others.
  • Her portraits have appeared in Vogue, The New York Times Magazine, and The New Yorker, and in ad campaigns for American Express, the Gap, and the Milk Board.
  • She has been made a Commandeur des Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government, and a designated living legend by the Library of Congress
  • Wrote the book, Women, with Susan Sontag in 1999
  • Wrote, A Photographer's Life: 1990-2005, which she called a memoir of photographs.
  • Shot a series of surreally lit, disney themed photographs featuring celebrities as Disney characters called Disney Dream Portraits, which Disney has featured.

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