Annie Leibovitz

One of my favorite photographers as well as of many other's interested in photography is Annie Leibovitz. Many modern photographers are influenced by her style. Many of us wish we were her and had a chance to work with such a broad specter of famous people such as Queen Elizabeth II, American president Barack Obama, the biggest Hollywood stars, and many others.

Annie Leibovitz was born in 1949 in Connecticut, USA and began photographing for Rolling Stone magazine in 1969 while still a student at the San Francisco Art Institute. Famed for her iconic images of celebrities, including John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Hillary Clinton, in 1983 she became chief photographer for Vanity Fair. A regular contributor to Vogue as well, she is the winner of numerous awards and her exhibitions have toured the world many times over. In 2005 American Photo named her the single most influential photographer at work today("Contact Press Images").

The reason why I chose Annie Leibovitz is because she is one of the most popular photographers of our age and her photographs could be seen in many famous magazines and art galleries.

I like her style and way of connecting with the object of her photographs. All the pictures that she had taken with Hollywood stars, models and musicians were real reproduction of their lives. She is making amazing portraits and her picture are usually very expensive.
She uses her imagination but mostly her portrait pictures are pure and realistic. Sometimes when I look at her pictures, even if I am not familiar with the object or the person that she photographed, I can tell what kind of person that is and what kind of personality that person presented herself to Annie.

For this article i decide to take couple pictures that remind me on her works. These are some young individuals who are interesting in photography and want their work to be seen and acknowledge. Some of these photo i find vey inspiring and excellent in quality. The first photo that i choose is a fashion photo that reminds me of work Annie Leibovitz.

She also like to plays with colors and abstracts in the background which often matches with the object.  She used this style with a music group „The white stripes“as well as the photographer named Kaith Haring that she took in 1986.

For my second and third option i choose this pictures that represent the true moment in someone’s life and that reminds me of Annie's style.

The second picture shows girl in the backyard, having a quiet moment in the garden. The girl is not posing for this shot, and intentionally moment takes her special.

'Leibovitz says she doesn't often approach people on the street and ask them to pose for her. "It's a whole other talent," she explains“

The third picture reminds me of her work for Disney collection where is girls in their imaginative world were often object of the photographs. Annie used lots of techniques to give the picture the charming look. This one is special because doesn’t look altered a lot, its used only the light to make it unusual.

Here is the picture from this collection by Annie Leibovitz that i absolutely adore.

This is one of the pictures that i found similar to Annie's photos. This picture looks like a part of fashion photo shoot and she done so many fashion photography with some of the world top models. She always manages to capture beauty of the person as well as interesting backgrounds.

The last picture that I found influenced by Annie Leibovitz is the "wicked lady" portrait as the one of the contestants named it. The similarity of this one to Annie's style is black and white colouring as well as asymmetric of girl's hair and unusual features of her face.

Annie Leibovitz is the master of portraits and her unique and emotional style of connecting with the objects inspired many young photographers of today.
She influenced many aspects of media and art with her incredible photographs. She published several bestselling books such as Photographs (1983), Photographs: Annie Leibovitz 1970–1990 (1991), Olympic Portraits (1996), Women (1999), American Music (2003), A Photographer’s Life: 1990–2005 (2006), and Annie Leibovitz at Work (2008).

Here are some of the popular images of this artist:

Work cited:

"Contact Press Images." Annie Leibovitz. Contact, Web. 3 Dec 2009.

http://www.contactpressimages.com/photographers/leibovitz/leibovitz_bio.html


Photographs of Annie Leibovitz retrived from artnet website: http://www.artnet.com/Artists/ArtistHomePage.aspx?artist_id=10329&page_tab=Artworks_for_sale

Al Fairteales, fotografie de moda

http://fotografiedemoda.wordpress.com/2010/01/05/annie-leibovitzs-fairytales/

Women, „ Annie Leibovitz interview“, The New York Times.

http://www.nytimes.com/library/photos/leibovitz/interview.html