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Annie Leibovitz
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<tr><td style="text-align:left;">Birth name</td><td>Anna-Lou Leibovitz</td></tr>

Born October 02 1949 (age 60)
Waterbury, Connecticut, United States

Anna-Lou "Annie" Leibovitz (born October 2, 1949 in Waterbury, Connecticut) is a noted American portrait photographer whose style is marked by a close collaboration between the photographer and the subject.

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[edit] Early life

Leibovitz was one of six children, and was a military brat; her father was a lieutenant colonel in the United States Air Force, and family moved frequently when she was young. Leibovitz was influenced by her mother, a modern dance instructor.

In high school, she became interested in various artistic endeavours, and wrote and played music. She attended the San Francisco Art Institute. She became interested in photography after taking pictures on a trip to visit her family, who was then based in the Philippines. 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<ref>http://www.bookrags.com/biography/annie-leibovitz/</ref>.

[edit] Photography career

[edit] Rolling Stone magazine

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When Leibovitz returned to America in 1970, she became involved with Rolling Stone magazine, which had just launched a short time before. In 1973, publisher Jann Wenner named Leibovitz chief photographer of the magazine, and she remained with the magazine until 1983. Her intimate portraits of celebrities helped define the look of the magazine<ref>http://www.bookrags.com/biography/annie-leibovitz/</ref>.

[edit] Other noted projects

Leibovitz has published six books of her photographs. In July 2006, Leibovitz photographed Suri Cruise, the daughter of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, for a piece on the couple in Vanity Fair.

[edit] Personal life

Leibovitz had a close relationship with noted writer and essayist Susan Sontag. They met in the late 1980s, when both had already established notability in their careers. Leibovitz has suggested that Sontag shaped some of her craft, and mentored her, encouraging her to be better.

After Sontag's death, Newsweek published an article about Leibovitz that made reference to her decade-plus relationship with Sontag, stating that "The two first met in the late '80s, when Leibovitz photographed her for a book jacket. They never lived together, though they each had an apartment within view of the other's."<ref>Cathleen McGuigan, "Through Her Lens", Newsweek, 2 October 2006.</ref>

Neither Leibovitz nor Sontag had ever previously publicly disclosed whether the relationship was familial, a friendship, or romantic in nature. However, when Leibovitz was interviewed for her 2006 book "A Photographer's Life: 1990-2005", she said the book told a number of stories, and that with Susan, it was a love story <ref>http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/06/arts/design/06leib.html?pagewanted=3&_r=1</ref>.

In the preface to the new book, she speaks in greater detail about her romantic/intellectual relationship with Sontag, briefly discussing a book they were working on together and describes how assembling her new book was part of the grieving process after Sontag's death.

In an October 17th, 2006 interview<ref>http://www.onpointradio.org/shows/2006/10/20061017_b_main.asp</ref> with Tom Ashbrook on NPR’s “On Point”, Annie Leibovitz finally publicly acknowledged that she and the late Susan Sontag were romantically involved. In the last fifteen minutes of the hour-long interview, Ashbrook asked Leibovitz directly why she kept using vague terms like "companion" to describe Sontag, instead of more specific ones like "partner" or "lover". Leibovitz finally said that “lover” was fine with her. She later repeated the assertion in stating to the San Francisco Chronicle: Call us 'lovers'. I like 'lovers.' You know, 'lovers' sounds romantic. I mean, I want to be perfectly clear. I love Susan <ref>http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/11/01/DDGCKM2T9J1.DTL</ref>.

[edit] Children

Leibovitz has three children: Sarah Cameron Leibovitz (born October 2001) was born when Annie was 52 years old. Her twins Susan and Samuelle were born to a surrogate mother in May 2005. <ref>http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/11/01/DDGCKM2T9J1.DTL</ref>

[edit] Selected Leibovitz photos

[edit] Leibovitz photo books

  • Photographs
  • Photographs 1970-1990
  • American Olympians
  • Women
  • American Music
  • A Photographer’s Life 1990-2005 (catalog for a travelling exhibit that debuted at the Brooklyn Museum in October 2006)

[edit] References

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[edit] External links

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