Great Photographer Research Paper

Great Photographer
Annie Leibovitz Photography has drastically changed since the start of this great phenomenon because of all the new advancements with technology. One modern photographer by the name of Annie Leibovitz has transformed the perspective of the audience to recognize these artist abilities. Photographers begin with some inspiration that allows them to create their work, progress to use techniques throughout their photography, and experiment with the techniques that they mastered in order to create a stunning success.
Like any other photographer Annie had her start where she learned many techniques that have helped her become a great photographer that she is. She attended the San Francisco Art Institute in the year of 1967. Realizing that her initial interest of
painting was not for her, Annie began studying her developing passion of photography after she traveled to Japan with her mother. As she traveled to Kibbutz in Israel she was able to use her photography skills there in the year of 1969. She graduated with a Bachelors in Fine Arts degree from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1971. That same year she was hired at the Rolling Stones magazine as a staff photographer and two years later was promoted to chief photographer.
At such a young age of 23 years old, Annie began this position that she would hold onto for ten years. In 1974, when the magazine began printing in color she has to learn to work with color and lighting because in school she was only taught to work with black and white. Within these ten years she had many opportunities including, traveling with The Rolling Stones band on their international tour as the official photographer in 1975 as well as take the famous picture of John Lennon and Yoko Ono in 1980. The photograph of John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono consisted of Lennon being nude curled around Ono was taken just a couple hours before his death; the photo cover became a famous collector’s item. At the Rolling Stone magazine Annie learned how to work with the bold color and odd poses that eventually became her primary techniques. After leaving the Rolling Stone magazine Annie Leibovitz started working for Vanity Fair in 1983. Her clientele grew to working with more celebrities, public figures, and presidents. Her photographs that can be somewhat controversial become the most remembered. Among these photographs is the Demi Moore picture where she is
nude and pregnant holding her belly and also the Whoopi Goldberg photograph where she is submerged in milk. As Annie Leibovitz became a well-known photographer some of her work was shown in the New York Times and in Vogue Magazine. Her work is being recognized to being more dramatic which attracts more clients into hiring Leibovitz. She has received many awards and honors, among those is having a collection of 200 black and white photographs being shown in a gallery in Washington D.C. and toured across the country to Europe and Asia in 1991. Annie also received the photography of the year award in 1984 from the American Society of Magazine Photographers and was honored to be the official Summer Olympics photographer held in Atlanta, Georgia in 1996.
I believe that Annie Leibovitz is a great photographer because her work is so intriguing. Annie’s work is so colorful and dramatic that it draws people’s attention in. I enjoy looking at her work, mostly fashion magazine photographs because she not only captures the models, but also the items that are the true seller for the company. Annie Leibovitz is an inspiration in the sense that she became very successful at a young age and her work has become very famous among celebrities.
Bibliography/Resources
1. http://www.biography.com/people/annie-leibovitz-9542372#more-accomplishments&

2. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/annie-leibovitz/life-through-a-lens/16/

3. http://rogallery.com/leibovitz/Leibovitz_Annie-Biography.html