Annie Leibovitz: ‘I’m frustrated about the word ‘celebrity’ ’
By TECHNO TRENDSZZ - June 25, 2020
Annie Leibovitz
Anna-Lou Leibovitz was born in Connecticut in 1949 as the third child of six children to parents with Eastern European and Jewish decent. Annie, as she grew up being called, got her passion for art from her mother who was a modern dance instructor. Her family moved around a lot when she was a child because her father was a lieutenant colonel in the US Air Force. Her family credits her success as a photographer to their numerous moves since she grew up seeing the world from the windows of a car.
Annie wanted to be a painter at first and even started attending the San Francisco Art Institute with other students who usually buy essays from NinjaEssays with the intention of becoming an art teacher. A photography workshop she took in her second semester was her first step into a long and fruitful photography career. She immediately changed her major to photography after the workshop.
While she was still a student, Leibovitz showed her photograph of Poet Allen Grinsberg at an anti-Vietnam march in 1970 to Jim Wenner, the creator of the Rolling Stones Magazine. Wenner immediately recognized her talent and hired her to be a contributing photographer to his magazine. At age 23, Leibovitz was already the chief photographer for Rolling Stones and with the artistic freedom to experiment with her work, she enjoyed with Rolling Stones.
Leibovitz created iconic images featuring influential musicians of the era like Elton John and Bob Dylan. However, despite her success, Leibovitz’s work at Rolling Stones was jeopardized by her hard partying and excessive drug use. It was after her rehabilitation that she was approached by Vanity Fair, a much more mainstream magazine. She took up the job and it was there she started taking her celebrity portraits. Soon enough, celebrities began to request to work with Leibovitz. And she is now known as a celebrity portrait photographer almost as famous as the people she photographed.