How to Recognize Art by Annie Leibovitz
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How to Recognize Art by Annie Leibovitz
Introduction
Annie Leibovitz (born in 1949), is an American photographer who first became famous for her many cover shoots for "Rolling Stone" magazine in the '70s and '80s and for her continuing work for "Vanity Fair" magazine ever since. Leibovitz, whose work is known for both its wit and power, was one of the first portrait photographers to try to develop personal relationships with her subjects before and during the shoot, so that the end result would be more intimate and revealing.
Instructions
Difficulty: Easy
Steps
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Step One
Get a comprehensive view of Annie Leibovitz's most famous photographs in two of her anthologies, "Photographs 1970-1990" and "A Photographer's Life 1990-2005," which cover the bulk of her career.
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Step Two
Study the most famous photographs by Leibovitz to get a feel about what distinguishes her art from her contemporaries, such as her candor and her willingness to photograph her subjects in unusually or even shocking contexts. One of the best examples is the photograph of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, taken for the "Rolling Stone" magazine cover on the day he died, where he is naked and embracing Ono in bed. While the photograph shocked many when the magazine first came out, it has, over time, become one of the most poignant and ominous photographic images ever taken, and truly defines Leibovitz's art.
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Step Three
Recognize the difference between Annie Leibovitz's professional photography, which can be elaborately staged, with bright colors and intense lighting, and her more personal photography of her life and family, which is usually shot with a simple 35mm camera in black and white with natural lighting.
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Step Four
Attend a showing of her work in a museum or art gallery in order to attain a more intimate perspective of her art and to hear others openly discuss and recognize what makes her photographic images distinctive and unique. Recently, much of her work toured the country in support of her last book, "A Photographer's Life 1990-2005."
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Step Five
See additional photographs by Annie Leibovitz online from such resources as the website for the New York Times Library archives (see Resources below).
Overall Tips & Warnings
- Annie Leibovitz is also famous for her portraits of celebrities in a series of American Express print advertisements in the 1980s, as well as being the official photographer of the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia.
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