1. Annie Leibovitz

2. “A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.”
- Annie Leibovitz
Scarlett Johansson as Cinderella

3. Her real name is
Anna-Lou Leibovitz  
And she was born
on October 2, 1949,
in Waterbury, Connecticut.

4. Her style of photography is celebrity portraits.
Johnny Depp

5. She says “I like to combine ambient light with a strobe, I do it a lot
She says “I like to combine ambient light with a strobe, I do it a lot. It allows my background
to become seamless
in a way, very flat.
The image itself becomes almost one dimensional. By lighting the subject I find they pop forward, then I leave the camera open to get the background.” about her photography techniques.

6. Annie Leibovitz is self-employed.

7. People have seen her
with a Hasselblad,
an RZ67, a Nikon digital,
a Canon digital and
some digital back on
a Mamiya.
She is Annie Leibovitz
and she'll use
whatever camera
works best for her.

8. When Annie started shooting
portrait, she would only bring
one light and an umbrella.
For many years that was her
go-to-setup which created
some of the most iconic images
we know.
Today, she has progressed
and moved into several different
diffusion methods. She uses one
Profoto Acute Headand, one large
soft modifier; a 60" Photek
Softlighter II.

10. In high school, she became interested in
various artistic endeavors, and began
to write and play music. She attended
the San Francisco Art Institute,
where she studied painting.
Annie’s first photo shoot was when
they (her father and she) were in
Philippines during the Vietnam war.

11. She started her career as
a staff Photographer
with the rock music
magazine Rolling Stone
In 1970.
Annie created a new
image of Rolling Stone
with her personalized
Photographs of
celebrities, and her
unique technique of
‘bold primary colours’
and ‘surprising
Poses’.

12. In 1983, Leibovitz left Rolling Stone and began working for Vanity Fair. With a wider array of subjects, her photographs for the magazine ranged from presidents to literary icons to teen heartthrobs. Annie’s shoots also
became known for over-the-top budgets that would later be at the center of major financial challenges.

13. Her work, her pictures
and all the effort she
puts into her work is
stunning.
I selected her, because
I really like her set up
of and the photos.

14. Annie Leibovitz doesn’t
have a website or an
online portfolio

15. “When I say I want to photograph
Someone, what it really means is
thatI would like to know them”
- Annie Leibovitz

16. Arnold Schwarzenegger – 1990

17. President Barack Obama – 2006

18. Queen Elizabeth II – 2007

19. Taylor Swift as Rapunzel

20. Jennifer Hudson as Princess Tiana

21. Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow

22. Rachel Weisz as Snow White