Anna lou leibovitz biography sample
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Annie Leibovitz
(1949-)
Who Is Annie Leibovitz?
Annie Leibovitz is a portrait photographer who in 1970 landed a job at Rolling Stone and went on to create a distinctive look for the publication as chief photographer. In 1983, she began working for the entertainment magazine Vanity Fair, continuing to produce images that would be deemed iconic and provocative. Having also worked on high-profile advertising campaigns, Leibovitz's images have been showcased in several books and major exhibitions around the world.
Early Life and Chief Photographer for 'Rolling Stone'
Anna-Lou Leibovitz was born on October 2, 1949, in Waterbury, Connecticut. She was one of six children born to Sam, an Air Force lieutenant, and Marilyn Leibovitz, a modern dance instructor. In 1967, Leibovitz enrolled at the San Francisco Art Institute, where (although initially studying painting) she developed a love for photography.
After living briefly on an Israeli kibbutz, the statuesque Leibovitz retur
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Writings
A Photographer's Life, 1990–2005 (New York, 2006)Find this resource:
S. DeLano, ed.: Annie Leibovitz at Work (New York, 2008) [conversations with S. DeLano]Find this resource:
American Ballet Theatre: The First Fifty Years—Portraits by Annie Leibovitz (New York, 1989)Find this resource:
Photographs: Annie Leibovitz (New York, 1991)Find this resource:
Dancers (Washington, 1992)Find this resource:
Olympic Portraits (Boston, 1996)Find this resource:
American Music (New York, 2003)Find this resource:
M. Harris: Aperture: On Location—Studio Visits with Annie Leibovitz, Lorna Simpson, Susan Meiselas, Cindy Sherman, Adam Fuss, Joel-Peter Witkin, Jon Goodman (New York, 1993)Find this resource:
AnnieLeibovitz: Women (exh. cat., text bygd S. Sontag, Miami, FL, A. Mus., and elsewhere, 2001–2)Find this resource:
J. Scott: “From Annie Leibovitz: Life, and Death, Examined,” NY Times (6 Oct 2006)Find this resource:
C. Molesworth: “The P
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“What is a photographer’s life? It’s just a life, looking through a lens.”
Anna-Lou ‘Annie’ Leibovitz was born in Conneticut USA in 1949. Her mother was a dancer and her father was in the Air Force, and she spent much of her early life moving around with her parents and her 5 siblings. She took her first photos whilst her father was stationed in the Philippines during the Vietnam War, and upon returning to the USA in 1967 she studied painting in the San Francisco Art Institute in the hope of becoming an art teacher. But after taking a photography workshop the following summer, her career took a different route and she joined Rolling Stone Magazine as their photographer. Over her long and varied career she has been on tour with the Rolling Stones, taken the last photograph of John Lennon before he was murdered, worked for Vanity Fair and Vogue – taking the now iconic image of a pregnant Demi Moore, documented the troubles in Sarajevo in