Annie Leibovitz

Annie Leibovitz.
By: J. Arenas

Her work is known to be “wildly lit, staged and provocative portraits of celebrities.” I personally enjoy her work because I am very fond of fashion and portrait photography. Anything involving people. A lot of her work is featured in (some of my favorite literary sources): “Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, Vogue, The New York Times Magazine, and The New Yorker” As well as “ ad campaigns for American Express, the Gap, and the Milk Board.”

I like the way Leibovitz captures her subjects naturally, yet with a special twist. In my personal opinion, most of the celebrities she has photographed have a new character/’alter-ego’ but you can still recognize who the subject is. An example of this is in her photograph of Demi Moore. In my personal opinion, Moore is known to be a sexy celebrity icon (she’s naked in the picture) but at the time she was photographed she was pregnant (natural state – shows she is a reg. person portraying the essence of a ‘soon to be mom’). Moore still looked like the sexy iconic actress that she is known to be, even though she was pregnant.


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Despite the some of the negative public remarks made about Leibovitz today (public announcement of financial troubles/lawsuits/other rumors) –I agree that most will always initially know her as “the most famous female portrait photographer in the world” and will remain to be a major influence towards the art of photography.


Here is my personal favorite, "The Bush Cabinet."









Sources:

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/annie-leibovitz/life-through-a-lens/16/
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/article4860955.ece
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Leibovitz

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