Annie Leibovitz

Ведущий фотограф Rolling Stone 70-х. Именно она автор последней профессиональной фотографии Джона Леннона.

December 8, 1980, was an unusually warm day in New York City. Lennon was up and about early, first to his favorite haunt, Cafe LaFortuna, for his morning coffee then to the barber before returning home. He would then do an interview for the RKO Radio Network before a photo shoot with Leibovitz for Rolling Stone magazine. Leibovitz promised Lennon he would make the cover of Rolling Stone.[3] and she initially tried to get a picture with just Lennon alone. She would recall that, "nobody wanted [Ono] on the cover".[4] When Lennon insisted that both be on the cover Leibovitz then tried to recreate the kissing scene from the Double Fantasy album cover, a picture that she loved.[4] "What is interesting is she said she'd take her top off and I said, 'Leave everything on' ... not really preconceiving the picture at all. Then he curled up next to her and it was very, very strong. You couldn't help but feel that she was cold and he looked like he was clinging on to her[5]... I shot some test Polaroids first and when I showed them to John and Yoko, 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." She was the last person to professionally photograph John Lennon.

На фото - Rolling Stone Issue #335 (Jan. 22, 1981)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Leibovitz
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/1000thphotographers/11/john_lennon_and_yoko...

Ее особая одаренность и целеустремленность в достижении своих целей были очевидны еще в 1970 году, когда, будучи еше студенткой художественного института Сан-Франциско, она получила свое первое задание от журнала "Роллинг стоун". Ее подборка так поразила редактора, что ей тут же доверили сделать фотографию Джона Леннона на обложку. В 1973 году Лейбовиц уже была главным редактором журнала. С этого времени ее яркие, оригинальные фотоработы широко публиковались в США и за рубежом.

На фото - Rolling Stone Issue # 74 (Jan. 21, 1971)

https://www.beatles.ru/books/paper.asp?id=143
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/10247676/1/John_Lennon

Behind the Photo: John and Yoko
Photographed by Annie Leibovitz
Posted Sep 30, 2004 12:00 AM

The session took place in a bright, sunny room overlooking the park," says Yoko Ono of her and John Lennon's photo shoot at the Dakota, their New York apartment building, on December 8th, 1980. "We were feeling comfortable because it was Annie [Leibovitz], whom we respected and trusted, so John seemed not to have any problem taking off his clothes. John and I were hugging each other, feeling a bit giggly and up."
"I was thinking that they had never been embarrassed to take their clothes off, that they could do a nude embrace," says Leibovitz, who was photographing them for a Rolling Stone cover to mark the release of Double Fantasy, their first album in five years. "John took his clothes off in a few seconds, but Yoko was very reluctant. She said, 'I'll take my shirt off but not my pants.' I was kinda disappointed, and I said, 'Just leave everything on.' We took one Polaroid, and the three of us knew it was profound right away."

That evening, returning to the Dakota on his way home from the recording studio, Lennon was shot and killed by a deranged fan. The photo would become the cover of Rolling Stone's commemorative issue, which also included one of the last interviews with Lennon, conducted on December 5th with writer Jonathan Cott.

"When I was with John and Yoko, they seemed like gods to me," says Leibovitz, even though she was living upstairs from them at the time in a small Dakota apartment. "It's hard to think about that time, but I remember being impressed with the simple kiss they did on the cover of Double Fantasy. The Eighties were not a romantic era, and the kiss was just so beautiful."

"The first time John and I worked with Annie was in 1970," says Ono. "That was a long, long time ago, and Annie seemed like a shy teenager. In 1980, Annie came back to us as a very accomplished photographer. She made us move around quietly and casually, but with inspired thoughts behind it."

Leibovitz had started the shoot with Ono and Lennon on December 3rd; when she returned on the 8th, she discovered that Lennon had gone to the barbershop that morning and had his long shag chopped off. "This is the way we used to wear our hair," he told Leibovitz, referring to the early days of the Beatles, "but it takes a lot of keeping up."

"Afterward, I didn't want to sell the picture to anyone else," says Leibovitz. "And Yoko said, 'Sell it! Sell it! Go buy yourself a photography studio!' She was very sweet."

Even now, it's not easy for Ono to look at the photo. "Why wasn't I told that John will be taken away from me soon after, without even a chance for me to say goodbye?" she says. "That's what I think about now when I see it."

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/6478087/behind_the_photo_john_and_yoko

Лавры Лейбовитц не дают покоя ее коллегам из Diva Magazine.
http://www.divamag.co.uk/diva/

фото самой Энн.

ее работы:
Leibovitz takes on Disney
http://www.notcot.com/archives/2007/01/leibovitz_takes.html

Annie Leibovitz
William Wegman and Fay Ray, 1988

Annie Leibovitz "A Photographer's Life: 1990-2005" book reading at Paula Cooper Gallery

Annie Leibovitz's portrait of the Queen

Nicole Kidman, New York, 2003. © Annie Leibovitz

Annie Leibovitz. WORK DATE: 2001

Johnny Cash and Roseanne Cash, Hiltons, Virginia

Platinum Blondie - 1979 Rolling Stone Cover by Annie Leibovitz

September 11 2007
The amazing Annie Leibovitz has created an incredible fashion spread in the new issue of Vanity Fair called Killers Kill, Dead Men Die, which is shot in a style that mimics film noirs. Leibovitz said that she wanted to create “a sense of continuity to the Hollywood Issue”, so she wrangled up the best that Hollywood had to offer to fill her story. There are near 40 major actors, actresses, and even a director in there, which includes Anjelica Huston, Ed Norton, Forest Whitaker, Bruce Willis, Sharon Stone, and the always amazing, Jack Nicholson.

Edinburgh, Scotland - The National Galleries of Scotland announces the largest ever sponsorship of an exhibition at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery. Lloyds TSB Scotland will sponsor the Gallery’s major summer exhibition, Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913–2008, showcasing some of the greatest portrait photographs of the twentieth century, which were taken for, or published in, Vanity Fair magazine. On exhibition 14 June - 21 September 2008.

Михал Сергеич работы Энн...
http://www.etoday.ru/2007/07/gorbachev-louis-vuitton.php

Annie Leibovitz - Iggy Pop, Miami, Florida, 2000

Деми Мур - тоже работа Энни. В смысле фотографии, конечно...

The Annie Leibovitz exhibit was spectacular and easily the most crowded part of the museum’s exhibits. The exhibit was composed of both fully processed works and, perhaps even more interesting, proof shots. Ms. Leibovitz is truly an artist with a camera, carefully posing her subjects with their individual personalities in mind in what she is striving to capture. This famous photo of John Lennon and Yoko Ono attempts to show the nature of this famous couple’s love and relationship. Tragically, this photo was taken the morning of December 8, 1980; at approximately 11pm that night Lennon was shot and killed outside his home.

Grace Slick
Tour/Show: Rolling Stone Magazine, Issue 70
Artist:Annie Leibovitz
Date:Nov 12, 1970

Performers: John Lennon, Yoko Ono
Tour/Show:Rolling Stone Magazine, Issue 75
Artist:Annie Leibovitz
Date:Feb 4, 1971

Performers: George Harrison
Tour/Show:Rolling Stone Magazine, Issue 176
Artist:Annie Leibovitz
Date:Dec 19, 1974

Performers: Paul McCartney
Tour/Show:Rolling Stone Magazine, Issue 215
Artist:Kim Gottlieb, Annie Leibovitz
Date:Jun 17, 1976