Born in Waterbury, Connecticut in 1949, the artist initially studied painting at the San Francisco Art Institute. Her interest in photography developed after she bought her first camera in 1968 and began taking night classes. In 1970, while still a student, she approached Rolling Stone magazine with a portfolio of photographs. Her work impressed the editors, and she was soon commissioned to photograph John Lennon. Three years later, she became the magazine’s chief photographer, a position she held until 1983. During this period, she documented the leading musicians of the era, including Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones, whose 1975 American tour she photographed.
In 1983, she joined the newly relaunched Vanity Fair, expanding her focus beyond music to include film stars, writers, artists and political figures. She began contributing regularly to Vogue in 1998, producing fashion editorials and advertising campaigns alongside her editorial portraiture. Her photographs are often distinguished by elaborate staging and unexpected juxtapositions, transforming familiar personalities into compelling visual narratives.
Among her best-known images is her 1980 portrait of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, taken just hours before Lennon’s death. The intimate composition, showing Lennon curled around Ono, became one of the most widely recognised images of the 20th century. The photograph sold for $33,600 at Christie’s New York in 2007. Other celebrated portraits include Whoopi Goldberg submerged in a bath of milk and Demi Moore’s 1991 Vanity Fair pregnancy cover.
Leibovitz has published numerous photographic books, including Women (1999), created in collaboration with Susan Sontag, and A Photographer’s Life, 1990–2005 (2006). In 1991, she became the first woman to receive a solo exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. Her photographs are held in major museum collections internationally, and she continues to work and exhibit worldwide.
ANNIE LEIBOVITZ (B. 1949)
Queen Elizabeth II, The White Drawing Room, Buckingham Palace, London
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Queen Elizabeth II, Buckingham Palace, London, 2007
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John Lennon and Yoko Ono, The Dakota, New York, December 8, 1980
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Keith Haring, New York, 1986
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Anna Wintour, New York City, 2015
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Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi (Blues Brothers), Hollywood, California, 1979
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Keith Haring, 1986
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Kate Moss, for American Vogue, October 1999
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Meryl Streep, New York, 1981
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Whoopi Goldberg, Berkeley, California, 1984
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Alice in Wonderland, Olivier Theysken and Natalia Vodianova, Paris, 2003
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Portrait of Dennis Hopper and Christopher Walken at Chateau Marmont, 1995
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Mireille Radwan-Dana, Dancer, Clifton Point, New York, 1998
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The Sopranos, 1999
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David Lynch and Isabella Rossellini , 1986
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Philip Johnson, Glass House, New Canaan, Connecticut, 2000
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Whoopi Goldberg, Berkeley, California, 1984
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Whoopi Goldberg, Berkeley, California, 1984
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Meryl Streep, New York, 1981
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Karl Lagerfeld, juin 1992
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Scarlett Johansson, Los Angeles, 2004
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Steve Martin, Beverly Hills, California, 1981
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Miles Davis, New York, 1989
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The Rolling Stones
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Beck, Los Angeles, 2001
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Mick Jagger disembarking from plane, c. 1972
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Magic Johnson, Los Angeles, 1989
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Central Park
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John and Yoko, c. 1970
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John Belushi, Staten Island, New York, 1981
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Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore, Los Angeles, 1995
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Jerry Hall, 1985
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Mohammed Ali, Chicago, 1979
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Stephen Petronio, 1993
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Clint Eastwood, Burbank, California, 1980
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June Omura, Dancer, Mark Norris Dance Group, Clifton Point, New York, Nude n°22, 1999