Annie Leibovitz in her New York City studio, 2003.
(Photo Credit Paul Gilmore)
Annie Leibovitz’s witty, powerful portraits have appeared on magazine covers for more than twenty- five years. Her astute observations of American popular culture appeared first in her legendary work for Rolling Stone in the 1970s and have continued through her long affiliation with Vanity Fair and Vogue. Leibovitz has worked with several artistic organizations, including American Ballet Theatre and the Mark Morris Dance Group, and with Mikhail Baryshnikov’s dance projects. Women, a book of Leibovitz’s portraits, with an essay by Susan Sontag, was published in 1999. Her 2006 book, A Photographer’s Life, was a New York Times bestseller. Leibovitz is the recipient of many honours, including both first and second place in the American Society of Magazine Editors’ recent compilation of the 40 top magazine covers of the past 40 years. Leibovitz was designated a Living Legend by the Library of Congress in 2000 and an Officier in the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2002. Smithsonian Magazine named her one of the 35 Innovators of Our Time in November 2005.
Annie Leibovitz: “I still need the camera because it is the only reason anyone is talking to me.”
