"I sometimes find the surface interesting. To say that
the mark of a good portrait is whether you get them or get the soul - I don't
think this is possible all of the time."
Annie Leibovitz
http://www.biography.com/people/annie-leibovitz-9542372
Annie Leibovitz was born on October 2, 1949, in Waterbury,
Connecticut. While studying painting at the San Francisco Art Institute, she
took night classes in photography, and in 1970, she began doing work for
Rolling Stone magazine. She became Rolling Stone’s chief photographer in 1973.
By the time she left the magazine, 10 years later, she had shot 142 covers. In
1983, she joined the staff at Vanity Fair, and in 1998, she also began working
for Vogue. In addition to her magazine editorial work, Leibovitz has created
influential advertising campaigns for American Express and the Gap and has
contributed frequently to the Got Milk? campaign. She has worked with many arts
organizations, including American Ballet Theatre, the Brooklyn Academy of
Music, and the Mark Morris Dance Group, and with Mikhail Baryshnikov.
http://www.vanityfair.com/contributors/annie-leibovitz
http://www.nytimes.com/library/photos/leibovitz/bourgeois.html
Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer's Life, 1990–2005 includes
over 150 photographs by the celebrated photographer, encompassing well-known
work made on editorial assignment as well as personal photographs of her family
and close friends. "I don't have two lives," Leibovitz says.
"This is one life, and the personal pictures and the assignment work are
all part of it."
The exhibition features many of Leibovitz's best-known
portraits of public figures, including actors such as Jamie Foxx, Nicole
Kidman, and Brad Pitt; athletes preparing for the 1996 Olympic Games; George W.
Bush with members of his Cabinet at the White House; and her famous 1991 image
of then-pregnant actress Demi Moore, one of the most recognisable photographs
of its time. The show also highlights images of artists and architects such as
Richard Avedon, Brice Marden, Philip Johnson, and Cindy Sherman. Leibovitz’s
assignment work includes reportage from the siege of Sarajevo in the early
1990s and the election of Hillary Clinton to the U.S. Senate.
At the heart of the exhibition, Leibovitz's personal
photography documents scenes from her life, including the birth and childhood
of her three daughters, and vacations, reunions, and rites of passage with her
parents and extended family.
Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer's Life, 1990–2005 threads
together the two sides of Leibovitz's work both chronologically and creatively,
projecting a narrative of the artist's private life against the backdrop of her
public image as one of the world's best-known portrait photographers.
http://www.npg.org.uk/annieleibovitz/index.htm
Breaking the mold: In 1991 Leibovitz captured this portrait
of actress Demi Moore, then 28, standing nude and pregnant for Vanity Fair
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2207704/Annie-Leibovitz-Master-set-exhibit-showcases-iconic-personal-photos-40-years.html
Famous celebrity photographer Annie Leibowitz took the
official portraits of Queen Elizabeth II in March 2007. One of the photos, shows a very serene Queen sitting in the White Drawing Room at
Buckingham Palace dressed in a pale gold evening dress, fur stole, and diamond
tiara. Inspired by the portrait of Queen Charlotte that hangs in the National
Gallery, the wide shot captures the Queen gazing towards a large open window
and reveals some of the room’s furnishings and a reflection of a chandelier in
a mirror. The room is dark except for the soft light flooding through the open
window.
The photo-shoot was going smoothly until Leibowitz asked the
Queen to take off her tiara (crown) to look “less dressy” for the next photo.
The Queen flew into a huff and replied: “Less dressy? What do you think this
is?” Contrary to some press accounts, Queen Elizabeth did not storm out of her
session with Leibovitz; she more or less stormed in, brisk and impatient–the
queen never enjoyed being photographed in her robes of state.
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