Annie Leibovitz
Annie Leibovitz is an American portrait photographer.
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Annie Leibovitz is an American portrait photographer.
Born in Waterbury, Connecticut, Leibovitz is the third of six children. In high school, she became interested in various artistic endeavours, and began to write and play music. She attended the San Francisco Art Institute, where she studied painting. For several years, she continued to develop her photography skills while working various jobs, including a stint on a kibbutz in Amir, Israel, for several months in 1969. Throughout her life on the Kibbutz, she learned to take Jewish concepts and apply them to her photographs.
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John Lennon 1980
On December 8, 1980, Leibovitz had a photo shoot with John Lennon for Rolling Stone, promising him he would make the cover. After she had initially tried to get a picture with just Lennon alone, which is what Rolling Stone wanted, Lennon insisted that both he and Yoko Ono be on the cover.
Leibovitz was the last person to professionally photograph Lennon.
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The Rolling Stones - Mick Jagger
Leibovitz photographed The Rolling Stones in San Francisco in 1971 and 1972, and served as the concert-tour photographer for Rolling Stones Tour of the Americas '75.
Her favorite photo from the tour was a photo of Mick Jagger in an elevator
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Personal life
Leibovitz had a close romantic relationship with noted writer and essayist Susan Sontag. They met in 1989.
After Sontag's death in 2004, Newsweek published an article about Leibovitz that made reference to her decade-plus relationship with Sontag, stating that "The two first met in the late '80s, when Leibovitz photographed her for a book jacket. They never lived together, though they each had an apartment within view of the other's
Leibovitz has three children the eldest, Sarah Cameron Leibovitz was born when Leibovitz was 52 years old. Her twins Susan and Samuelle were born to a surrogate mother in May 2005.
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