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Annie leibovitz dance photography5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Pennsylvania State Marching Band with actors in Liebovitz’s Wizard of Oz images for Vogue. Her large scale ‘productions’ with locations, large casts and multiple props have led to her work being sought for fashion and advertising work. Another such success was the Bette Midler bedded in roses Rolling Stones cover to advertise the movie The Rose. The timing made it a world wide signifier of the life and death of Lennon and the pop super-fame figure and licentious lifestyle it represented (despite the monogamous relationship between Lennon and Ono). ![]() The image itself is controversial as it reverses the usual nude female/clad male dichotomy. The Rolling Stones cover image of Yoko One being cuddled by nude John Lennon was taken just hours before Lennon’s assassination. ![]() For portraits, she attempts to get to know the subjects so she can make more insightful work. Her background was in journalism rather than fashion photography. Her practice includes commercial photography, social commentary and journalism. She is a noted portrait photographer, having photographed most important figures in the USA since that time. Annie Leibovitz is an American photographer who rose to fame taking shots of The Rolling Stones (started work as a photographer on Rolling Stones magazine) and other pop figures of the 1960s including John Lennon and Yoko Ono. ![]()
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