Annie Leibovitz

Annie Leibovitz is a very well known photographer in America because she worked with The Rolling Stone magazine for a long time, then made a dramatic change to photograph the Vanity Fair magazine. She was born on October 2nd, 1949 in Westbury, Connecticut and along her were five other kids. Her mother's name was Marilyn Leibovitz and she was a modern dance instructor, and her father's name was Sam, who was an Air Force lieutenant. Her career did not start as a photographer, but instead as a painter at the San Francisco Art Institute; but there was where she found her love for photography.

In 1970 (she was 23 at the time), she applied for a job with Rolling Stone magazine and the editor hired her and gave her the position of staff photographer. Within two years, Annie moved up and withheld the title Cheif Photographer for the magazine, and she would continue to hold onto that title for the next ten years. Working with Rolling Stone, she developed her unique use of bold colors in her photography, and people have said that the photographs they used for the Rolling Stones have become collector's items, "most notably an issue that featured a nude John Lennon curled around his fully clothed wife, Yoko Ono. Taken on December 8, 1980, Leibovitz’s photo of the former Beatle was shot just hours before his death."

In 1983, Annie left Rolling Stones and began to work with Vanity Fair. "To date, a number of Vanity Fair covers have featured Leibovitz’s stunning—and often controversial—portraits of celebrities. Demi Moore (very pregnant and very nude) and Whoopi Goldberg (half-submerged in a bathtub of milk) are among the most remembered actresses to grace the cover in recent years."

Here are some of Annie Lebovitz' breathtaking work: