Annie Leibovitz Research Paper

Annie Leibovitz Brenda Chang
Annie Leibovitz was born in 1949 in Connecticut. Her father was a soldier and her mother was dancer. Her father worked on fashion field for a short period. Annie liked to see outside while her parent was driving through the road, and her mother respected her pictures which she took when she was young. She moved to California and also attended San Francisco Art Institute and started to learn about painting which was her major. However, she felt interesting in taking photographs while attending the school and finally changed her career to photographer. After hard practicing, she got in Rolling Stone for her first company. People were surprised with her first work which took John Lennon for the Rolling Stone’s cover. In 3 years, she became a chief photographer in Rolling Stone. She met her life mentor Sidney Janis who was telling her so many helps and advices and also she worked in Vogue for many series. She was picked as “The best photo shot 2000” in Alfred Eisenstaedt for the project with Vogue. Also she published the representative project of her “Alice in Wonderland” in 2003 and “Wizard of Oz” in 2005.

Annie took his picture with his wife Ono Yoko. There was John Lennon wearing nothing and his wife staring at the ceiling with no face expressions. It was become famous because it revealed John Lennon’s love toward his wife but there was more critical reason. 4days after taking this picture, John passed away. It naturally became his last photo of his life and it also became more famous than before. Just looking this photograph without thinking his death makes us feeling suspiciously or mysteriously; but looking this photograph with thought of his death after 4 days touches our