Annie Leibovitz at Work

“The first thing I did with my very first camera was climb Mt. Fuji. Climbing Mt. Fuji is a lesson in determination and moderation. It would be fair to ask if I took the moderation part to heart. But it certainly was a lesson in respecting your camera. If I was going to live with this thing, I was going to have to think about what that meant. There were not going to be any...

“The first thing I did with my very first camera was climb Mt. Fuji. Climbing Mt. Fuji is a lesson in determination and moderation. It would be fair to ask if I took the moderation part to heart. But it certainly was a lesson in respecting your camera. If I was going to live with this thing, I was going to have to think about what that meant. There were not going to be any pictures without it."

—Annie Leibovitz

Annie Leibovitz describes how her pictures were made, starting with Richard Nixon's resignation, a story she covered with Hunter S. Thompson, and ending with Barack Obama's campaign. In between are a Rolling Stones Tour, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg, The Blues Brothers, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Keith Haring, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Patti Smith, George W. Bush, William S. Burroughs, Kate Moss and Queen Elizabeth. The most celebrated photographer of our time discusses portraiture, reportage, fashion photography, lighting, and digital cameras.

萊博維茨1969年還在舊金山藝術(shù)學(xué)院求學(xué)時(shí)，即為《滾石》雜志拍片。以名人肖像攝影享譽(yù)攝影界，1983年成為《名利場(chǎng)》雜志首席攝影師，并長期為《VOGUE》雜志供稿。獲獎(jiǎng)無數(shù)，作品在世界各地巡回展出。出版過數(shù)本里程碑式的畫冊(cè)，如由蘇?！どＫ褡摹?999年由蘭登書屋出版的《女性》，以及由派蒂·史密斯和羅斯安妮·凱斯撰文的2003年由蘭登書屋出版的《美國音樂》等。除名人肖像外，萊博維茨也拍攝戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)題材，如戰(zhàn)火中的女性、波斯尼亞薩拉熱窩和盧旺達(dá)等地的軍事沖突等。2005年，《美國攝影》雜志稱其為“至今仍在進(jìn)行拍攝工作的唯一的最具有影響力的攝影師”。2006年，美國雜志協(xié)會(huì)在評(píng)選40年來最優(yōu)秀的雜志封面照時(shí)，頭兩名都屬于安妮·萊博維茨--《滾石》的約翰·列儂封面和《名利場(chǎng)》的黛米·摩爾封面；她也曾三度入圍《美國攝影》“100位在攝影領(lǐng)域有重要影響的人”。