Anna - Lou Leibovitz, also know by Annie to her friends and colleagues, was Born on October 12, 1949 to Sam and Marilyn Leibovitz, in the small city of Waterbury Connecticut. Her Mother was a dancer who had traveled the world and her father an officer in the Air Force, who coincidentally worked at one time in the fashion industry. Her mother also had a strong fascination in documenting their family’s travels in photos this is where she thinks her love for photography sparked. Leibovitz graduated from High school in late 1966, she then moved to the Philippines where her father had been re-stationed. After a brief couple of months there she moved back to the United States to California in the Bay area where she lived with her sister. She later enrolled in the San Francisco Art Institute with the goal of becoming an art teacher with an emphasis in painting. As she began to take more classes focused in art she instead falls in love photography. Not soon after starting college she heads to a “Kibbutz” which is a communal settlement in Israel, typically a farm. She intended to never return to the United States again, but in 1970 despite her efforts she returns to the States to accept her frost assignment from Rolling stone and to her own surprise the photo she had taken of John Lennon makes the cover. Not long after in 1971 she received her first job with one of her soon to be long-term employers Vogue for their September issue starring the world renowned psychologist Dr. Arthur Janov who invented a new primitive form of therapy. In 1973 she receives a major accomplishment she appears on the Rolling Stone’s master head as “Chief Photographer.” Her photography does a beautiful job of capturing Nixon–era political figures and classic rock... ... middle of paper ... ...he also flies Kristen Dunst, who poses as Marie Antoinette, and herself out to Versailles to do an enomous shoot for Vogue’s September cover. Also another milestone in Leibovitz career was a photograph of Queen Elizabeth at the Buckingham Palace in 2007. In 2009 Leibovitz accepted a lifetime-achievement award from the ICP ( Internation Center of Photography) in New York City. In the same year Leibovitz was sued by a the Art Capital Group for an outstanding debt of over $24 million. She sells her life’s work and both of her homes, one in Manhattan and the other in Rhinebeck. She reaches an agreement with the Colony Capital to restructure her debt in 2010. She also contuines to shoot for Vogue and Vanity Fair until today. Leibovitz contnues to photograph famous stars all over the world and infulence many young artists to do what they love and stick with what you do.
Born in 1934, Jerry Uelsmann grew up an inner city kid of Detroit. In high school, Uelsmann worked as an assistant for a photography studio; he eventually photographed weddings. Uelsmann went to Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) where he met Minor White, who “introduced [him] to the concept that photography could be used for self-expression” (Berman). While at RIT, he studied with Bruce Davidson, Peter Turner and Car Chiaraenza, with whom he held frequent discussions on how photography could be different. After RIT, Uelsmann went to Indiana University where he changed his degree to a Master of Fine Arts degree. He graduated with an M.S. and an M.F.A at Indiana University in 1960, where he studied with Henry Holmes Smith, who had worked with Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. After graduation, he moved to Gainesville, Florida and began teaching photography (Taylor). Currently, Uelsmann is retired in Florida with his wife Maggie Taylor. He still creates photomontages and has exhibits all over the world. Uelsmann and his wife vacation in Yellowstone National Park every year, where he photographs the area and creates beautiful surreal photomontages (Congdon, 316-317).
It’s his compassion for his subjects and his commitment to them that surpasses the act of making a pretty picture. Spending days with his subjects in the slums of Harlem or the hardly developed mountains of West Virginia, he immerses himself into the frequently bitter life of his next award-winning photo. Often including word for word text of testimonials recorded by junkies and destitute farmers, Richards is able to provide an unbiased portrayal. All he has done is to select and make us look at the faces of the ignored, opinions and reactions left to be made by the viewer. Have you ever been at the beach safely shielded by a dark pair of sunglasses and just watched?
Alisa Rosenbaum (her original name) was born and raised in Russian Empire in the beginning of 20th century. She was from a well-to-do family. Her father was a successful entrepreneur who run his own pharmacy and her mother was an aristocratic woman who took care of their three daughters.
During this time he photographed members of high society such as Mick Jagger, Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn as well as members of the royal family including Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Charles. His work portrayed elegance and grace, which he achieved by creat...
Lensey Namioka is a Chinese-born American writer of many popular novels for both young adults and children. She was born on July 29th, 1929 in Beijing, China. In 1937, Namioka and her family were living in Nanjing but fled westward during the Japanese Invasion. They eventually made their way to Hawaii, and ultimately settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Namioka attended Univ...
Joan Baez was born on Staten Island in 1941. Her mother’s name was Joan also, and her father’s name was Vincent. She spent a part of her childhood in Iraq because her father had a job there. While she was fourteen, her family moved back to the U.S. and lived in California.
Dorothy was born in Brooklyn, New York on November 8 1897. In 1906 her family survived the San Francisco earthquake and her and her family took a drastic change in lifestyle conditions after Day’s father became unemployed and they were forced to move into a small flat in Chicago’s South Side. After seeing the shame her father felt with unemployment sparked
For several years she went through a hard time with record labels, clashing with managers, and the Internal Revenue Service. She lived in many different countries until she finally settled down in
5 Light, Ken. Tremain, Kerry. Witness in our Time: Working Lives of Documentary Photographers. Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2000.
When the economy crashed in 1929, the majority of all Americans lost their jobs, money, and hope. With this great turn in economic stability Americans faced the harsh reality of bankruptcy or homelessness. As a result, citizens in need filled every street corner. Dorothea Lange, a young photographer at the time, found inspiration in the sad eyes of the needy. Through photos such as “Migrant Mother”, Lange captured the desperate sentiment of the decade that no words could demonstrate so clearly. Born on May 26, 1895, Dorothea Lange grew up in Hoboken, New Jersey. As a child of education advocates, Lange attended school, but never with much interest. After completing her academic education, Lange studied art form at Columbia University in 1917. Years later, she apprenticed with numerous well known photographers and eventually opened her first photography studio in California. Before photographing depression-era pieces, Lange focused on Native American culture. Howev...
June 19, 1942 she married her highschool sweetheart James Dougherty (“Marilyn Monroe.”) and moved to Van Nuys, California. While in Van Nuys, James was sent to the south pacific for World War II and Marilyn worked at Radio Plane Company. While James was away she was discovered by a photographer and enrolled in a three month modeling class (“Marilyn Monroe...Born.”). The photographer was taking pictures of women that were helping with the war. The photographer was so impressed by Marilyn that he told he to apply for a job at Blue Book Model Agency. In 1946 she was on 33 magazine covers and was posing for the best photographers (Bradshaw, Lauren). By 1946 when James returned, she had a successful modeling career that she was very focused on, causing a divorce. (“Marilyn
"A photograph is not merely a substitute for a glance. It is a sharpened vision. It is the revelation of new and important facts." ("Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History."). Sid Grossman, a Photo League photographer expressed this sentiment, summarizing the role photography had on America in the 1940’s and 50’s. During this era, photojournalism climaxed, causing photographers to join the bandwagon or react against it. The question of whether photography can be art was settled a long time ago. Most major museums now have photography departments, and the photographs procure pretty hefty prices. The question of whether photojournalism or documentary photography can be art is now the question at hand. Art collectors are constantly looking to be surprised; today they are excited by images first seen in last week’s newspapers as photojournalism revels in the new status as art “du jour” or “reportage art”.
It was not until a trip to Japan with her mother after her sophomore year of studying painting at the San Francisco Art Institute that Annie Leibovitz discovered her interest in taking photographs. In 1970 Leibovitz went to the founding editor of Rolling Stone, Jann Wenner, who was impressed by Leibovitz’s work. Leibovitz’s first assignment from Wenner was to shoot John Lennon. Leibovitz’s black-and-white portrait of Lennon was the cover of the January 21, 1971 issue. Ironically, Leibovitz would be the last person to capture her first celebrity subject. Two years later she made history by being named Rolling Stone’s first female chief photographer. Leibovitz’s intimate photographs of celebrities had a big part in defining the Rolling Stone look. In 1983 Leibovitz joined Vanity Fair and was made the magazine’s first contributing photographer. At Vanity Fair she became known for her intensely lit, staged, and alluring portraits of celebrities. With a broader range of subjects available at Vanity Fair, Leibovitz’s photographs for Vanity Fair ranged from presidents to literary icons to t...
A few months ago, a child named Hajile Lutz decided to show off some drawings of hers to her friends.
Gertrude Stein was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania on February 3rd, 1874. She was the the youngest out of five children. Her family was considered to be a upperclass German-Jewish-American family. Her father, Daniel Stein, was a wealthy Businessman with real estate holding and was the director of San Francisco's street car lines, the Market Street Railway. Her mothers name was Amelia Stein. German and English were the the two