Photographer Annie Leibovitz was born in Waterbury Connecticut on October 2, 1949. Her birth name was Anna-Lou Leibovitz. While Leibovitz was growing up, her father, Sam Leibovitz, was in the military and her mother, Marilyn Leibovitz, was a modern-dance instructor. Leibovitz’s family moved often in her childhood, due to her father being an Air Force lieutenant colonel. Her mother was the primary force raising Leibovitz and her five siblings. Leibovitz enrolled at the San Francisco Art Institute while living in the Phillipines in 1967, receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1971. She had intentions of becoming a painter and painting instructor. During a vacation from school, Leibovitz and her mother visited Japan. In Japan, she bought a camera to document the trip. Upon her return to college, she enrolled in a photography night class. She became enthralled with the art form. Leibovitz was still studying at the San Francisco Art Institute, she was giver her first official job assignment from Rolling Stone magazine. She was to photograph John Lennon. The founder of Rolling Stone, Jann Wenner, paid …show more content…
Leibovitz $47 dollars a week, all while she was still enrolled in college. Annie Leibovitz had already become chief photographer for Rolling Stone by 1973, only three years after her first assignment. She was twenty-three years old. She was employed by Rolling Stone for the next ten years. During her employment with the magazine, she traveled all over, photographing the big names in music at the time. Leibovitz’s reputation secured with her skilled photographs of two subjects: John Lennon and the Rolling Stones. One of Leibovitz’s most famous photographs was her photo capturing John Lennon two hours before his death on December 8, 1980. The Rolling Stones hired Leibovitz in 1975 to chronicle their six-month concert tour. One of the most famous photos from this time is the photo of Mick Jagger standing in an elevator, wearing a bathrobe with a towel wrapped around his head, eye make-up from the show smoky and smeared around his eyes with a gaunt look about him. This project and the growth of Rolling Stone magazine made Leibovitz quite famous to other photographers. It was during this tour, however, that Leibovitz’s name became somewhat affiliated with drugs: she became addicted to cocaine, a habit she finally quit about five years later when she joined the ranks of Vanity Fair. Rolling Stone began printing their magazines in color in 1974, and Leibovitz had to learn teach herself about color and how to shoot it, as all of her previous photographs had been in black and white. Her signature style for shooting in color is one of the things that she is most well-known for. Her style features brilliant colors and bold poses, while also capturing her subject in a strong yet vulnerable state. In the thirteen years Leibovitz worked with Rolling Stone, she had photographed 142 covers for the magazines and had shot multiple big names in the entertainment industry, including Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Wonder, Dolly Parton, Meryl Streep, Linda Ronstadt, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Woody Allen, and Arnold Schwarzenegger. She was regularly able to reveal the personalities of her subjects during her shoots. One of Leibovitz’s most well-known photos of Schwarzenegger is of the actor atop a giant white horse, wearing white pants and smoking a cigar. One of Leibovitz’s shoots with Dolly Parton also featured Schwarzenegger. Parton stood in front of him, and only his flexed arms and legs could be seen in the photograph. Leibovitz studied her subjects for a few days beforehand to really get to know them. Leibovitz left Rolling Stone in 1983 and became chief photographer for Vanity Fair not long after. Working at Vanity Fair allowed her the chances to photograph more celebrities. Of the many celebrities she photographed for Vanity Fair, some of the most notable have been Demi Moore, Sylvester Stalone, Whoopi Goldberg, and one of the most recent, Caitlyn Jenner. One of her more scandalous shoots for Vanity Fair was Demi Moore’s shoot. Moore was depicted completely nude and very pregnant on the cover of Vanity Fair in 1991. Some people found the image offensive and shocking. Originally, during the shoot, the nude photo was going to be just for Moore, but Leibovitz thought it would make a good cover photo, and Moore agreed. That issue of Vanity Fair was sold out at the Grand Central Station the first day. During her time at Vanity Fair, her photo shoots also became known for going tremendously over the given budgets. The same year, she also held her own solo show, many of her celebrity portraits among the sixty photos in the show. Accompanying the show was a book titled Annie Leibovitz: Photographs, which became a best seller. Another milestone for 1983, Leibovitz received the American Society of Magazine Photographers award for Photographer of the Year. Just three years later in 1986, Leibovitz added advertising to her repertoire. She furnished various companies with her photographs. She was also awarded the Clio Award, which is comparable to an Academy Award, in 1987 for her work with American Express. Leibovitz was also involved with the well-known “Got Milk?” campaign. In 2007, Leibovitz was extended the honor of photographing Queen Elizabeth. She was the first American to be asked to make an official portrait of the Queen. Leibovitz had originally wanted to photograph the Queen outside, with a natural landscape for a background to her photos. Leibovitz also wanted to capture the Queen while she was out riding, but both ideas were denied. To get around this obstacle, Leibovitz shot outside, taking photos of the landscapes she had wanted to use as the backgrounds of her photos. She then explained to the Queen that she would photograph her inside, and then superimpose her onto the landscape digitally. The final image depicts the Queen wearing a black robe with gold buttons down the front standing in the gardens, with a cloudy sky and leafless trees. The National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.
honored Leibovitz in 1991 with a major exhibition. She was the first woman to be given such an honor. Her work was only the second display of a living photographer mounted at the site. Her work also brought more visitors in five weeks than the museum usually received in a whole year. The show was accompanied by a book that detailed almost 200 of her photos, called Photographs: Annie Leibovitz, 1970-1990.
Leibovitz was named official photographer of the US Olympic Team in 1996 by the Atlantic Committee. Both Vanity Fair and Sports Illustrated featured her Olympic work in their magazines that year. This was her first attempt at capturing athletes, and the work was shown in an exhibit in Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, Georgia. Her Olympic portraits were also published as a collection in a book titled Olympic
Portraits. Leibovitz published another collection of her work in 1999, titled Women, which also featured an essay by her lover, writer and intellectual Susan Sontag. In the collection, Leibovitz documented an array of images of women, from coal miners to Supreme Court Justices, to Vegas showgirls, to farmers. Leibovitz and Sontag had had a fifteen-year relationship, which ended tragically in December of 2004 with Sontag’s death. Unfortunately, Leibovitz’s father passed away just a few weeks after her lover. Leibovitz began searching for photographs to create a small book to hand out at Sontag’s service. These photos were published in a book called A Photographer’s Life 1990-2005. They were also shown in an exhibit in the Brooklyn Museum in October of 2006. The exhibit featured photos from the beginning of Leibovitz’s career and covered many of the events of her life, ending with her father’s and Sontag’s deaths.
She went to high school in Illinois but she missed class often. She didn’t graduate but she found out she was very good at chemistry. Near the 1900s she developed a new hair product that straightened African American’s hair without the damage like other hair products. Annie eventually
For my museum selection I decided to attend Texas State University’s Wittliff Collection. When I arrived, there was no one else there besides me and the librarian. To be honest, I probably would have never gone to an art museum if my teacher didn’t require me to. This was my first time attending the Wittliff Collection, thus I asked the librarian, “Is there any other artwork besides Southwestern and Mexican photography?” She answered, “No, the Wittliff is known only for Southwestern and Mexican photography.” I smiled with a sense of embarrassment and continued to view the different photos. As I walked through Wittliff, I became overwhelmed with all of the different types of photography. There were so many amazing pieces that it became difficult to select which one to write about. However, I finally managed to choose three unique photography pieces by Alinka Echeverria, Geoff Winningham, and Keith Carter.
It was not until a trip to Japan with her mother after her sophomore year of studying painting at the San Francisco Art Institute that Annie Leibovitz discovered her interest in taking photographs. In 1970 Leibovitz went to the founding editor of Rolling Stone, Jann Wenner, who was impressed by Leibovitz’s work. Leibovitz’s first assignment from Wenner was to shoot John Lennon. Leibovitz’s black-and-white portrait of Lennon was the cover of the January 21, 1971 issue. Ironically, Leibovitz would be the last person to capture her first celebrity subject. Two years later she made history by being named Rolling Stone’s first female chief photographer. Leibovitz’s intimate photographs of celebrities had a big part in defining the Rolling Stone look. In 1983 Leibovitz joined Vanity Fair and was made the magazine’s first contributing photographer. At Vanity Fair she became known for her intensely lit, staged, and alluring portraits of celebrities. With a broader range of subjects available at Vanity Fair, Leibovitz’s photographs for Vanity Fair ranged from presidents to literary icons to t...
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In nature things often occur that parallel our way way of being. In this short excerpt, Annie Dillard portrays the amount of determination and stubbornness in weasels, which is much like our own. At the beginning Ms. Dillard reflects on the characteristics that make a weasel wild. She writes that the weasel “…[kills] more bodies than he can eat warm, and often dragging the carcasses home” (Dillard 1). She then moves on to the weasels instinct,and stubbornness, through an anecdote in which a naturalist found himself with a weasel stuck to his arm with one bite, and try as he might her could not “pry the tiny weasel” (Dillard 1) off his arm. The only way he was able to release himself was to “soak him[the weasel] off like a stubborn label”(Dillard
Herzog, created more than 1,000 paintings, within the most recognized ones are, "Women in a Tropical Setting", "Landscape with a Bear and her Cub", “Sentinel Rock”, “Brandywine River Museum”and “The St .Johns River Entering the Atlantic Ocean”.
Through out the Great Depression there were many photographers, but one of the best was Dorothea Lange. Lange was born on the 25th of May in 1895 in Hoboken, New Jersey as the first child of Joan and Henry Nutzhorn. She decided to become a photographer at the age of 18. She studied photography at Columbia University in New York. At the age of 20 she began to travel the world. Later in life she settled down in San Francisco, California, where she met her first husband, artist Maynard Dixon. She had had to children Daniel (1925) and John (1928). She died on the 11th of October in 1916. Even Though some people believe Dorothea Lange was not a great photographer, Dorothea was because she caused great inspiration of those going through the hard times of the Great Depression, she also showed us that some of are problems may not as bad as other peoples.
The Life and Works of Annie Leibovitz Annie Leibovitz is one of the best portrait photographers in this modern age. Her works focus on varied subjects but hover more among celebrity portraits. Apart from these, her photographs depict visual stories that affect the audience's emotions. The diversity and life of her photographs create visual artistic realms that touch the soul. Biography:
Annie Proulx, Edna Annie Proulx in full,was born August of 1935 in Norwich, Connecticut. Growing up, she was the oldest of five sisters. Her dad was vice president of a textile company. She moved around often as a child and attended to Colby College in Maine, where she met her first husband. Proulx left school, and began working various jobs. She then went on to the University of Vermont in 1963, and then George Williams University located in Montreal in 1973. In the early seventies, Proulx began writing articles in magazines such as Esquire and Country Journal. Her big breaks came when she had two stories published in The Best American Short Stories in 1983 and 1987. She wrote her first fiction book titled, Heart Songs and Other Stories in 1988. Her first novel, Postcards (1992), won a Pen/Faulkner award and she was the first woman to achieve this honor. The Shipping News, the story of Quoyle and his family who leave the United States move to Canada after the death of his wife, was awarded a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award. Her next novel was Accordion Crimes, which follows an Old World accordion’s travels to the United States through the immigration of an Italian man. She has also published three collections of stories that take place in Wyoming’s vast landscapes, where Proulx settled in 1994. It includes Brokeback Mountain, the love story of Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist, which has since been adapted into a movie. In her most recent work, a memoir titled Bird Cloud (2011), she recollects the building of her home in Wyoming. Britannica writes, her “darkly comic, yet sad fiction is peopled with quirky, yet memorable individuals and unconventional families.” Annie Proulx creates flawed characters who work through change and...
Born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, Cindy Sherman grew up in suburban Huntington Beach on Long Island, the youngest of five children and had a regular American childhood. She was very self-involved, found of costumes, and given to spending hours at the mirror, playing with makeup (Schjeldahl 7). Cindy Sherman attended the state University College at Buffalo, New York, where she first started to create art in the medium of painting. During her college years, she painted self-portraits and realistic copies of images that she saw in photographs and magazines. Yet, she became less, and less interested in painting and became increasingly interested in conceptual, minimal, performance, body art, and film alternatives (Sherman 5). Sherman’s very first introductory photography class in college was a complete failure for she had difficulties with the technological aspects of making a print. After her disastrous first attempt in photography, Sherman discovered Contemporary Art, which had a profound and lasting effect on the rest of her artistic career (Thames and Hudson 1). Sherman’s first assignment in her photography class was to photograph something which gave her a problem, thus, Sherman chose to photograph her self naked. While this was difficult, she learned that having an idea was the most important factor in creating her art, not so much the technique that she used.
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Juliet Margaret Cameron was a Pioneer Victorian photographer during the nineteenth century. She took up photography later in life at the age forty-eight when her daughter presented her with a camera. This simple gift sparked enthusiasm in Cameron and led her to become one of the most colorful personalities in photography.Cameron was born in Calcutta in 1815 to a well to do British Family. After being educated in Europe, she returned to the Cape of Good Hope in 1836. While she was there she met Charles Hay Cameron, whom she married in 1838.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art came about as an idea from Jon Jay in Paris, France in 1866 with the idea of “national institution gallery of art” within the United States. Once this idea was proposed, it was immediately moved forward with his return to the United States. With the help of the Union League Club in NY they began to acquire civic leaders, businessmen, artists, and collectors who aided in the creation of the museum. For over 140 years, the visitors who go here have received everything the mission of the institution states.
"A photograph is not merely a substitute for a glance. It is a sharpened vision. It is the revelation of new and important facts." ("Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History."). Sid Grossman, a Photo League photographer expressed this sentiment, summarizing the role photography had on America in the 1940’s and 50’s. During this era, photojournalism climaxed, causing photographers to join the bandwagon or react against it. The question of whether photography can be art was settled a long time ago. Most major museums now have photography departments, and the photographs procure pretty hefty prices. The question of whether photojournalism or documentary photography can be art is now the question at hand. Art collectors are constantly looking to be surprised; today they are excited by images first seen in last week’s newspapers as photojournalism revels in the new status as art “du jour” or “reportage art”.
I first visited the Guggenheim Museum two weeks ago with Claus, my friend from Germany. We had the MOMA in mind but I guess talking, talking we must have passed it by. Half an hour from the MOMA we found ourselves in front of the Guggenheim, the astonishing white building that was Frank Lloyd Wright's last project. Why not? We said to ourselves. And so we walked right in.