Women
In Photography International Distinguished Photographers Award
LUCIE AWARDS - December 7, 2003
Leibovitz, Annie (1949- ), American photographer, known for
her portraits of celebrities, who range from political figures to
musicians and athletes. Her work has included magazine, fashion, and
advertising photography. Many of Leibovitz's portraits of rock music
celebrities have become signature images. A notable example is her
portrait of the nude John Lennon on a bed with his fully clothed wife,
Yoko Ono, the last portrait of Lennon before his death in 1980. Born
in Westport, Connecticut, Leibovitz received a bachelor of fine arts
degree from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1971. She subsequently
continued her studies with photographer Ralph Gibson. In 1969 she
lived on a kibbutz in Israel and participated in an archaeological
dig at the site of King Solomon's temple. From 1970 to 1983 she was
a freelance photographer and the chief photographer for Rolling Stone
magazine, and in 1975 she served as a concert-tour photographer for
The Rolling Stones band. She has been a contributing photographer
for Vanity Fair magazine since 1983, and in the early 1990s she founded
the Annie Leibovitz Studio in New York City.
Life
is pretty strange anyway: Annie Leibovitz
in conversation with fotoTAPETA's Anna Beata Bohziewicz
http://fototapeta.art.pl/fti-ale.html
( Warsaw's Hotel Bristol, JanuaryÊ19Ê'98)
ABB:
- Are you shy?
AL: - Oh! We are all shy. No one knows how to talk. Sometimes
we sit in my studio and everywhere is very quiet and no one talks.
It drives me crazy... There must be a reason why people who are photographers
are not very good at verbal communication. I don't want to believe
this, as I think we get lazy. We think because we are photographers
we don't have to try to communicate. But I know from my own personal
experience that it's hard to watch something to go on and then suddenly
to be talking at the same time. read http://fototapeta.art.pl/fti-ale.html
see
photos: previous page ©Waldemar
Gorlewski \ Agencja Gazeta \ agencja@agora.pl
website: http://agencja.gazeta.pl/fotoweb/
