Annie Leibovitz

Annie Leibovitz is an American portrait photographer. Born in Waterbury, near New York, Leibovitz is the third of six children. She is a third-generation American whose great- grandparents were immigrants, from Central and Eastern Europe. Her father's parents had emigrated from Romania. Her mother was a modern dance instructor; her father was a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force. The family moved frequently with her father's duty assignments, and she took her first pictures when he was stationed in the Philippines during the Vietnam War.

Rolling Stone magazine When Leibovitz returned to the United States in 1970, she started her career as staff photographer, working for the just launched Rolling Stone magazine. Publisher Jann Wenner named Leibovitz chief photographer of Rolling Stone, a job she would hold for 10 years. Leibovitz worked for the magazine until 1983, and her intimate photographs of celebrities helped define the Rolling Stone look.

She learned that you can work for magazines and still do your own personal work, which for her was the most important thing. It is much more intimate and tells a story for her as she works with people who love her and who will "Open their hearts and souls and lives to you."

Leibovitz photographed The Rolling Stones in San Francisco in 1971 and 1972, and served as the concert-tour photographer for Rolling Stones Tour of the Americas '75. Her favorite photo from the tour was a photo of Mick Jagger in an elevator.

On December 8, 1980, Leibovitz had a photo shoot with John Lennon for Rolling Stone, promising him that he would make the cover. She had initially tried to get a picture with just Lennon alone, which is what Rolling Stone wanted, but Lennon insisted that both he and Yoko Ono be on the cover. You couldn't help but feel that she was cold and he looked like he was clinging on to her. I think it was amazing and they were both very excited. John said, 'You've captured our relationship exactly. Promise me it'll be on the cover.' I looked him in the eye and we shook on it."Leibovitz was the last person to professionally photograph Lennon—he was shot and killed five hours later.

Demi Moore, Culver City, California, 1991 Demi Moore, Culver City, California, 1991. Photograph by Annie Leibovitz.

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Malibu, California, 1988.

Elizabeth II, Buckingham Palace, London, March 28, 2007.

Nicole Kidman

Batte Midler

Whoopi Goldberg

Sting

Jack Sparrow

Hillary Clinton

Wilt Chamberlain & Willie Shoemaker

Sarah Jessica Parker

By Fani Ivova ХIIа