(October, 2, 1949, Waterbury, Connecticut, USA)
Anna-Lou Leibovitz is an American photographer. She was the first woman to exhibit her work at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC, and the last to portray musician John Lennon, before he was murdered in 1980.
She is the best-paid photographer in the world and has worked for magazines such as Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone and Vogue. In 1983, she won a Grammy in the Best Album Cover category, the following year she was awarded by the American Association of Magazine Editors as Photographer of the Year. In 1988 he received the Clio award for the American Express advertising campaign and in April 2000, the Library of Congress of the United States named him “Living Legend”.
Although she is known mainly for her portraits of celebrities, Leibovitz has practiced documentary and landscape photography, hired by the publisher Condé Nast Publications since 1993. Her images are represented, since 1977, by the photojournalism agency Contact Press Images.
Some links:
- Annie Leibovitz en Internet Movie Database
- Annie Leibovitz – A photographer’s life, artículo de revista Literal
Some of her Photos
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