Photographer Annie Leibovitz is one of the most well-known and celebrated portrait photographers of our time. She has photographed presidents and royalty, musicians and writers, and celebrities as well as everyday life. Annie has a distinguishable personal style that was influenced by other photographers under whom she studied. While at the San Francisco Art Institute, the “personal reportage” works of Robert Frank and Henri Cartier-Bresson inspired her to document her subjects and the intended messages in graphic ways. She is famous for thought and emotion-evoking images such as Demi Moore’s nude pregnancy photo on the cover of Vanity Fair, the controversial shot of Miley Cyrus covered by only a bed sheet (also in Vanity Fair), and a portrait of John Lennon and Yoko Ono taken only hours before he was killed in 1980. She has achieved many accomplishments and has also been asked to take important photographs, such as Queen Elizabeth II and the Obama family.
