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Annie Leibovitz
Anna-Lou Leibovitz is an American portrait photographer best known for her portraits, particularly of celebrities, which often feature subjects in intimate settings and poses. Leibovitz's Polaroid photo of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, taken five hours before Lennon's murder, is considered one of Rolling Stone magazine's most famous cover photographs. The Library of Congress declared her a Living Lege…
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entertainment · American photographer (born 1949) · photographer · fashion photographer · film director · also Annie Leibovitz, Leibovitz
Born 2 October 1949 · Q225283
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2026· 15 entries
arsmagazine.com: La pasión por el fútbol según Annie Leibovitz
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Cuatro: Marta Ortega, fotografiada por Annie Leibovitz para 'Vogue': la entrevista de la presidenta de Inditex
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The Objective: Annie Leibovitz descubre el jardín de Marta Ortega en su casa de La Coruña: diseñado por el paisajista Tom Stuart-Smith, con una fuente y toque inglés
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Europa Press: El posado de Marta Ortega del que todo el mundo habla: su 'look' ante la cámara de Annie Leibovitz
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OkDiario: Cuando Annie Leibovitz fotografiaba a los Rolling Stones: la exposición que revive la cultura pop
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OkDiario: Marta Ortega se sincera bajo el foco de Annie Leibovitz: el movimiento definitivo que coloca a Zara y al ‘f...
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EFE - Agencia de noticias: Marta Ortega, presidenta de Inditex, fotografiada para Vogue por Annie Leibovitz - EFE
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Tribuna de Salamanca.: Annie Leibovitz retrata a Marta Ortega y capta la nueva imagen de la presidenta de Inditex
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Faro de Vigo: El espectacular jardín de Marta Ortega en Galicia fotografiado por Annie Leibovitz
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Vozpopuli: La enigmática foto que Annie Leibovitz ha captado de Marta Ortega en Vogue
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La Vanguardia: Marta Ortega, fotografiada por Annie Leibovitz en una entrevista para 'Vogue'
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El HuffPost: Marta Ortega, fotografiada por Annie Leibovitz para 'Vogue': la presidenta de Inditex responde a las comparaciones con su padre y deja claro el futuro de Zara
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El Mundo: Marta Ortega sorprende en Vogue con fotografías de Annie Leibovitz: "Menos del 1% del producto de Inditex se queda sin vender"
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2025· 5 entries
Yahoo: Annie Leibovitz, 76, says being an older mom means her daughters push her to take care of herself
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Yahoo: Annie Leibovitz didn't want to make a photo book about women. But the result is stunning
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Forbes: Five Decades On, Annie Leibovitz Unveils Her First Monaco Exhibition
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Hyperallergic: Annie Leibovitz Shoots Fifty Shades of Anne Hathaway
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Leibovitz produced several portraits for the television series The Chosen
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2024· 2 entries
New York Post: Annie Leibovitz lists California farm for $8.99M just 5 years after buying it
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The Real Deal: Annie Leibovitz sells Central Park West co-op for 20% over asking
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2023· 1 entry
Leibovitz was commissioned by IKEA to "create a series of 25 portraits that illuminate the nuances of 'life at home'
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2022· 1 entry
New York Post: Annie Leibovitz criticized over lighting of Ketanji Brown Jackson photos
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2021· 1 entry
Chicago Tribune: Annie Leibovitz: Intimidating and not. She talks about her new photo book ‘Wonderland,’ what celebrities are like and how magazines are less glossy.
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2017· 2 entries
“Annie Leibovitz Teaches Photography”
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Leibovitz announced the release of an online photography class entitled "Annie Leibovitz Teaches Photography"
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2015· 2 entries
Leibovitz was the principal photographer for the 2016 Pirelli calendar
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And the cast of Star Wars: The Last Jedi for Vanity Fair in 2017
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2014· 1 entry
Leibovtiz did a shoot of Kim Kardashian, Kanye West, and their daughter North West for an article in Vanity Fair
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2013· 1 entry
Awarded Princess of Asturias Award for Communications and Humanities (2013).
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2012· 1 entry
Awarded Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame (2012).
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2011· 1 entry
Leibovitz was nominated alongside Singaporean photographer Dominic Khoo and Wing Shya for Asia Pacific Photographer of the Year
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2010· 1 entry
Fotografiska Stockholm opened with inaugural exhibitions that included Annie Leibovitz's "A Photographer's Life, 1990 to 2005
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2009· 3 entries
Awarded Royal Photographic Society Award (2009).
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By the couple's son Sean Lennon posing with his girlfriend Charlotte Kemp Muhl, with male/female roles reversed (Lennon clothed, Kemp naked), and by Henry Bond and Sam Taylor-Wood in their YBA pastiche on October 26, 199
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Referred to Sontag as Leibovitz's "companion", Leibovitz wrote in A Photographer's Life: "words like 'companion' and 'partner' were not in our vocabulary
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2008· 3 entries
The New York Times clarified: though the pictures left an impression that she was bare-breasted, Cyrus was wrapped in a bedsheet and was actually not topless
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Entertainment Tonight reported that 15-year-old Miley Cyrus had posed topless for a photo shoot with Vanity Fair
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Leibovitz choreographed a photoshoot featuring LeBron James and Gisele Bündchen that appeared on the cover of Vogue
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2007· 4 entries
And in 2016 at Windsor Castle to mark her 90th birthday
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The BBC misrepresented Leibovitz's portrait shooting of Queen Elizabeth II to take the Queen's official picture for her state visit to Virginia
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The Walt Disney Company hired her to do a series of photographs with celebrities in various roles and scenes for the Walt Disney Parks and Resorts "Year of a Million Dreams" campaign
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A major retrospective of Leibovitz's work was held at the Brooklyn Museum
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2006· 2 entries
Newsweek magazine made reference to Leibovitz's decade-plus relationship with Sontag, stating, "The two first met in the late '80s, when Leibovitz photographed her for a book jacket
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In 2006, Newsweek magazine made reference to Leibovitz's decade-plus relationship with Sontag, stating, "The two first met in the late '80s, when Leibovitz photographed her for a book jacket.
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2003· 1 entry
Awarded Lucie Award (2003).
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2000· 1 entry
Awarded Library of Congress Living Legend (2000).
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1998· 1 entry
Leibovitz began to work regularly for Vogue
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1994· 1 entry
Leibovitz photographed Carl Lewis for Pirelli's famous Power Is Nothing Without Control ad campaign
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1991· 2 entries
Leibovitz emulated Margaret Bourke-White's feat by mounting one of the eagle gargoyles on the 61st floor of the Chrysler Building in Manhattan, where she photographed the dancer David Parsons cavorting on another eagle g
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Leibovitz mounted an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery
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1980· 2 entries
Leibovitz had a photo shoot with John Lennon for Rolling Stone, and she promised him he would make the cover
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Leibovitz photographed Ann & Nancy Wilson of Heart for the May 15, 1980 cover of Rolling Stone magazine on the beach in Biloxi, Mississippi
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1978· 1 entry
Leibovitz photographed the cover for Joan Armatrading's fifth studio album To the Limit, spending four days at her house capturing the images
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1975· 1 entry
The Rolling Stones invited Leibovitz to document their six-month concert tour
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1973· 1 entry
Publisher Jann Wenner named Leibovitz chief photographer of Rolling Stone, a job she would hold for 10 years
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1971· 2 entries
And 1972, and served as the concert-tour photographer for the Rolling Stones' Tour of the Americas '75
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Her photographs of Israel and a picture of the poet Allen Ginsberg at a San Francisco peace march had already landed her a job at the music magazine Rolling Stone
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1970· 1 entry
Started her career as staff photographer for Rolling Stone magazine
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1949· 2 entries
Born 1949-10-02.
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Anna-Lou Leibovitz is the third of six children of Marilyn Edith (née Heit) and Samuel Leibovitz
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