WOMEN: New Portraits

source: dixonbaxi
Annie Leibovitz – Women: New Portraits the touring exhibition just finished over at the Wapping Project which lucky for us – was right next to DB HQ.

Leibovitz has been documenting popular culture for over 45 years. She was primarily a photojournalist in the beginning but soon evolved into a portraitist with a very distinctive style.

Women: New portraits is the follow on from Women her collaboration with Susan Sontag in 1999. It reflected “the unprecedented changes in the consciousness of many women in these last decades.”
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source: biography
Annie Leibovitz, considered one of America’s best portrait photographers, developed her trademark use of bold colors and poses while at ‘Rolling Stone.’

QUOTES
“I sometimes find the surface interesting. To say that the mark of a good portrait is whether you get them or get the soul – I don’t think this is possible all of the time.”
—Annie Leibovitz

Synopsis

Photographer Annie Leibovitz was born on October 2, 1949, in Waterbury, Connecticut. In 1970 she landed a job at Rolling Stone and went on to create a distinctive look for the publication as chief photographer. In 1983 she began working for the entertainment magazine Vanity Fair, continuing to produce images that would be deemed iconic and provocative. Having also worked on high-profile advertising campaigns, Leibovitz’s images have been showcased in several books and major exhibitions around the world.

Anna-Lou Leibovitz was born on October 2, 1949, in Waterbury, Connecticut. She was one of six children born to Sam, an Air Force lieutenant, and Marilyn Leibovitz, a modern dance instructor. In 1967, Leibovitz enrolled at the San Francisco Art Institute, where (although initially studying painting) she developed a love for photography.

After living briefly on an Israeli kibbutz, the statuesque Leibovitz returned to the U.S. and applied for a job with the start-up rock music magazine Rolling Stone in 1970. Impressed with Leibovitz’s portfolio, which included an image of counter-culture icon Allen Ginsberg, editor Jann Wenner offered her a job as a staff photographer. Within two years, the 23-year-old Leibovitz was promoted to chief photographer, a title she would hold for the next decade. Her position with the magazine afforded her the opportunity to accompany the Rolling Stones band on their 1975 international tour, though she lost herself from the experience and ended up grappling with a crippling drug addiction.

While with Rolling Stone, Leibovitz developed her trademark technique, which involved the use of bold primary colors and surprising poses, as seen with a 1979 Bette Midler cover inspired by the rock music film The Rose. Leibovitz is credited with making many Rolling Stone covers collector’s items, including an issue that featured a nude John Lennon curled around his fully clothed wife, Yoko Ono. Taken on December 8, 1980, Leibovitz’s Polaroid of the former Beatle was shot just hours before his death.
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source: amorpelafotografia
Anna-Lou (Annie) Leibovitz, nasceu em Westport, Connecticut em 2 de outubro de 1949. Seu interesse pela fotografia começou na época em que estava morando nas Filipinas. Em 1970, após voltar para os Estados Unidos, Annie começou a trabalhar na revista Rolling Stone, onde permaneceu até 1983.
Annie Publicou seis livros de fotografia. A fotógrafa acompanhou a turnê dos Rolling Stones nas Américas em 1975. Fotografou muitas celebridades para a campanha publicitária mundial do cartão American Express em 1980, em 1983 trabalhou como fotógrafa-retratista para a revista Vanity Fair e muitos outros trabalhos ao longo de sua carreira. Um dos seus trabalhos de maior destaque foram as fotos de John Lennon nú com Yoko Ono (foto realizada na manhã do seu assassinato).