They're the people who open their hearts and souls and lives to you. While working for Rolling Stone, Leibovitz learned that she could work for magazines and still create personal work of her family, which for her was the most important: 'You don't get the opportunity to do this kind of intimate work except with the people you love, the people who will put up with you. Leibovitz worked for the magazine until 1983, and her intimate photographs of celebrities helped define the Rolling Stone look. In 1973, publisher Jann Wenner named Leibovitz chief photographer of Rolling Stone, a job she would hold for 10 years. When Leibovitz returned to the United States in 1970, she started her career as staff photographer for Rolling Stone magazine. The 'Texas Leica')ġ970–1980 Rolling Stone Career įor many years Leibovitz's camera of choice was a Mamiya RZ67. For several years, she continued to develop her photography skills while holding various jobs, including a stint on a kibbutz in Amir, Israel, for several months in 1969. She was inspired by the work of Robert Frank and Henri Cartier-Bresson. At school, she had her first photography workshop and changed her major to photography. Leibovitz attended the San Francisco Art Institute, where she studied painting with the intention of becoming an art teacher. While attending Northwood High School in Silver Spring, Maryland, she became interested in various artistic endeavors and began to write and play music. Leibovitz's passion for art was born out of her mother's engagement with dance, music, and painting. The family moved frequently with her father's duty assignments, and she took her first pictures when he was stationed in the Philippines during the Vietnam War. Air Force of Romanian-Jewish heritage and her mother was a modern dance instructor of Estonian-Jewish heritage. Her father was a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. 3.4.2 LeBron James / King Kong photoshootīorn in Waterbury, Connecticut, on October 2, 1949, Anna-Lou Leibovitz is the third of six children of Marilyn Edith (née Heit) and Samuel Leibovitz.

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