Annie Leibovitz( IPA: /ˈliːbəvɪts/)

Born: October 2, 1949 Waterbury, Connecticut

Education: San Francisco Art Institute

Influences: mother, a modern dance

instructor

American portrait photographer whose style is marked by a close collaboration between the photographer and the subject.Leibovitz’s is best known for her work at Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair and Vogue. In 2005, her photos took the first two spots for the best magazine covers of the past 40 years by the American Society of Magazine Editors. No.2 – Naked and pregnant Demi Moore holding her belly for Vanity Fair.No.1 – Naked John Lennon curled around Yoko Ono for Rolling Stone.

Annie Leibovitz

• third of six • Her mother was a modern dance instructor• her father was a lieutenant colonel in the United States Air Force

. The family moved frequently with her father's duty assignments• In high school, she became interested in various artistic

endeavours, and began to write and play music.• Attended the San Francisco Art Institute. She became interested

in photography after taking pictures when she lived in the Philippines, where her Air Force father was stationed during the Vietnam War. For several years, she continued to develop her photography skills while she worked various jobs, including a stint on a kibbutz Amir in Israel for several months in 1969.

Early life and education

• Leibovitz returned to the United States in 1970

• worked for the recently launched Rolling Stone magazine.

• 1973-1983 chief photographer of Rolling Stone.

• her intimate photographs of celebrities helped define the Rolling Stone look.

Annie Leibovitz Career Rolling Stone magazine

• In 1975, Leibovitz served as a concert-tour photographer for The Rolling Stones' Tour of the Americas.

Annie Leibovitz Career Rolling Stone magazine

December 8, 1980Lennon and OnoOn December 8, 1980, Leibovitz had a photo shoot with John Lennon for Rolling Stone, promising him he would make the cover.After she had initially tried to get a picture with just Lennon alone, which is what Rolling Stone wanted, Lennon insisted that both he and Yoko Ono be on the cover. Leibovitz then tried to re-create something like the kissing scene from the Double Fantasy album cover, a picture that she loved. She had John remove his clothes and curl up next to Yoko. Leibovitz recalls, "What is interesting is she said she'd take her top off and I said, 'Leave everything on' — not really preconceiving the picture at all. Then he curled up next to her and it was very, very strong. You couldn't help but feel that she was cold and he looked like he was clinging on to her. I think it was amazing to look at the first Polaroid and they were both very excited. John said, 'You've captured our relationship exactly. Promise me it'll be on the cover.' I looked him in the eye and we shook on it."[5] Leibovitz was the last person to professionally photograph Lennon — he was shot and killed by Mark David Chapman, a crazed fan, five hours later.

Annie Leibovitz

1983-Vanity Fair magazine

Since 1983, Leibovitz has worked as a featured portrait photographer for Vanity Fair.

Annie Leibovitz (American, b. 1949)Cover of "Vanity Fair" issue of August 1991

1983-Vanity Fair magazine

Since 1983, Leibovitz has worked as a featured portrait photographer for Vanity Fair.

Annie Leibovitz (American, b. 1949)DECEMBER 1989 Michael Jackson. Photograph by Annie Leibovitz

• Leibovitz at "Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer's Life, 1990-2005", San Francisco, California, 2008• In the 1980s, Leibovitz photographed celebrities for an international advertising campaign for

American Express charge cards. • In 1991, Leibovitz mounted an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery. • Also in 1991, Leibovitz emulated Margaret Bourke-White's feat, when she mounted one of the eagle

gargoyles on the 61st floor of the Chrysler Building in Manhattan, where she photographed the dancer David Parsons cavorting on another eagle gargoyle. Noted Life photographer and picture editor John Loengard made a gripping photo of Leibovitz at the climax of her danger. (Loengard was photographing Leibovitz for the New York Times that day).

• A major retrospective of Leibovitz's work was held at the Brooklyn Museum, Oct. 2006 - Jan. 2007. The retrospective was based on her book, Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer's Life, 1990 – 2005, and included many of her professional (celebrity) photographs as well as numerous personal photographs of her family, children, and partner Susan Sontag. This show, which was expanded to include three of the official portraits of Queen Elizabeth II, then went on the road for seven stops. It was on display at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., from October 2007 to January 2008, and as of April 2008 is at the Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco. In February 2009 the exhibition was moved to Berlin, Germany.[6] The show included 200 photographs.[7] At the exhibition, Leibovitz said that she doesn't have two lives, career and personal, but has one where assignments and personal pictures are all part of her works. This exhibition and her talk focused on her personal photos and life. [8]

Annie Leibovitz Career Other noted projects

2007

Asked by Queen Elizabeth IIto take the queen's official picturefor her state visit to Virginia.

Queen Elizabeth © Annie Leibovitz

• In 2007, the Walt Disney Company hired her to do a series of photographs with celebrities in various roles and scenes for Disney Parks "Year of a Million Dreams" campaign. [11][12][13]

Annie Leibovitz Career Other noted projects

• On April 25, 2008, the televised entertainment program Entertainment Tonight reported that 15 year old Miley Cyrus had posed topless for a photo shoot with Vanity Fair.[14] [15] The photo, and subsequently released behind-the-scenes photos, show Cyrus without a top, her bare back exposed but her front covered with a bedsheet. The photo shoot was taken by photographer Annie Leibovitz.[16] The full photograph was published with an accompanying story on The New York Times' website on April 27, 2008. On April 29, 2008, The New York Times clarified that though the pictures left an impression that she was bare-breasted, Cyrus was wrapped in a bedsheet and was actually not topless.[17] Some parents expressed outrage at the nature of the photograph, which a Disney spokesperson described as "a situation [that] was created to deliberately manipulate a 15-year-old in order to sell magazines."[17]

Annie Leibovitz Career Other noted projects

Annie Leibovitz (American, b. 1949). Willie Nelson, Luck Ranch, Spicewood, Texas, 2001.Copyright © 2001 by Annie Leibovitz.

Annie Leibovitz (American, b. 1949). Brad Pitt.Copyright © 2001 by Annie Leibovitz.

Annie Leibovitz (American, b. 1949). © Annie Leibovitz.

Another of Leibovitz's famous images shows comedian Whoopi Goldberg submerged in a bath of milk. The picture was inspired by one of Goldberg's stage routines, in which she plays a little black girl who uses Clorox to wash her skin in an attempt to be white. The shoot required gallons of milk that were warmed in pots on the stove and poured into a bathtub. Goldberg then slipped in the bath and stuck out her tongue. "I thought 'Oh my goodness, this is graphically amazing and interesting,' and we took that picture," says Leibovitz.

Annie Leibovitz (American, b. 1949).Christo

Christo fully wrapped so the viewer must take the artist's word that Christo is actually under the wrapping

© Annie Leibovitz.

Christo, Surrounded Islands

Annie Leibovitz, Susan Sontag at Petra, Jordan, 1994Photograph © Annie LeibovitzFrom Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer's Life, 1990 – 2005

Annie Leibovitz (American, b. 1949).

Copyright © 2001 by Annie Leibovitz.

Annie Leibovitz (American, b. 1949Jim Carrey

© Annie Leibovitz.

Annie Leibovitz (American, b. 1949). Leibovitz, Annie. ANNIE LEIBOVITZ: Olympic Portraits. 185 pages, including 172 b&w plates. 4to, boards. New York, Little, Brown & Co., 1996.© Annie Leibovitz.

Annie Leibovitz (American, b. 1949

Copyright © Annie Leibovitz.

Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer's Life, 1990-2005

Annie LeibovitzMikhail Baryshnikov and Rob Besserer, Cumberland Island, Georgia, 1990

Photograph © Annie LeibovitzFrom Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer's Life, 1990 – 2005

Annie Leibovitz (American, b. 1949). Nicole Kidman, 2003.

Photograph © Annie Leibovitz. Courtesy of Vogue. From Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer's Life, 1990–2005

Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer's Life, 1990-2005

Annie LeibovitzMeryl Streep

Photograph © Annie Leibovitz

Annie LeibovitzSting

Photograph © Annie Leibovitz

Annie LeibovitzBette Midler

Photograph © Annie LeibovitzBette Midler-RS 306 (December 13, 1979)

Annie LeibovitzMartina Navratilova

Photograph © Annie Leibovitz

Annie LeibovitzWilliam S. Burroughs

Photograph © Annie Leibovitz

Annie Leibovitz (American, b. 1949). Nicole Kidman by Annie Leibovitz

© 2001 Annie Leibovitz.

Annie Leibovitz (American, b. 1949). Nyoko Ono

© Annie Leibovitz.

Annie Leibovitz (American, b. 1949). Keith Haring

© Annie Leibovitz.

Annie Leibovitz (American, b. 1949). Keith Haring

© Annie Leibovitz.

The Blues Brothers-RS 285 (February 22, 1979)

Annie Leibovitz (American, b. 1949). Steve Martin

© Annie Leibovitz.

A portrait of Brad Pitt at the "Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer's Life, 1990-2005" exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum. (AP Photo)