Annie Leibovitz

Annie Leibovitz is one of the most well known and highly paid photographers ever known.  It is incredible what high demand she is still in.  Her photography career began with classes in college.  Though she came into school as a painting major, she took one class in photography and it just “clicked” with her.  She started really working when she got a job at the Rolling Stone magazine.  Though morality was her goal at this job, it was the time of experimentation, and experimentation was exactly what she did.  She explained how people spoke to her, making it easy for her to capture amazing shots of them.  She was also a keen observer and this helped her to see what others might have missed when shooting photos.  After gaining much recognition, Leibovitz moved to New York with the magazine and was in the center of the world when it came to art and creativity.  She learned a lot from working there, especially when she left Rolling Stone and began doing more mainstream, glamorous photos.  To this day she still can incorporate something about the person she is taking a photograph of into her photos, all the while provoking them.  I loved seeing the beautiful pictures she has taken, from ordinary people to movie stars.