Anna-Lou Leibovitz
Once attend San Francisco Art Institute, Annie Leibovitz's show, A Photographer’s Life, 1990–2005 is at the Legion of Honor, San Francisco Dont miss it! One week left
Annie Leibovitz, one of six children. In high school, she became interested in various artistic endeavors, and began to write and play music. She attended the San Francisco Art Institute. She became interested in photography after taking pictures on a trip to visit her family in Japan. For several years, she continued to develop her photography skills while she worked various jobs, including a stint on a kibbutz in Israel for several months in 1969.
When Leibovitz returned to America in 1970, she worked for the recently-launched Rolling Stone magazine. In 1973, publisher Jann Wenner named Leibovitz chief photographer of Rolling Stone. Leibovitz worked for the magazine until 1983, and her intimate photographs of celebrities helped define the Rolling Stone look.
In 1975, Leibovitz served as a concert-tour photographer for the Rolling Stone, Tour of the America.
Since 1983, Leibovitz has worked as a featured portrait photographer for Vainty Fair.
On December 8, 1980, Leibovitz had a photo shoot with John Lenno for Rolling Stone, promising him he would make the cover
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