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Up for sale "Portrait Photographer" Annie Leibovitz Hand Signed 3X5 Card. There is a bit of staining in the top right not affecting the signature. The price has been adjusted to reflect this.
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Anna-Lou "Annie" Leibovitz
(/ˈliːbəvɪts/; born October 2, 1949) is an American portrait
photographer.
She is best known for her engaging portraits—particularly of celebrities—which
often feature subjects in intimate settings and poses. She photographed John Lennon
on the day he was murdered, and her work has been
used on numerous album covers and magazines. She became the first woman to hold
an exhibition at Washington's National Portrait
Gallery in 1991. Born in Waterbury, Connecticut, on October 2,
1949, Anna-Lou Leibovitz is the third of six children of Marilyn Edith (née
Heit) and Samuel Leibovitz. She is a third-generation American;
her father's parents were Romanian Jews. Her mother was a modern dance
instructor of Estonian-Jewish heritage. Her father was a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air
Force. 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. She took photographs around the
military base and of nearby locals. Leibovitz passion of art was born out of
her mother's engagement with dance, music, and painting. At Northwood
High School in Silver Spring, Maryland, she became
interested in various artistic endeavors and began to write and play music. Leibovitz attended the San Francisco Art Institute, where she
studied painting with the intention of becoming an art teacher. At school, she
had her first photography workshop and changed her major after to photography .
She was inspired by the work of Robert Frank
and Henri Cartier-Bresson, which her school
taught about. 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.
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