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Article: Leibovitz: a life in pictures.(THE HOME FORUM)(Annie Leibovitz)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- November 5, 2007
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Byline: Katherine Stephen
Annie Leibovitz is synonymous with celebrity. As perhaps America's best-known living photographer, she has produced iconic images of politicians, actors, athletes, and writers that, for many, provide the visual definition of fame for our times.
Her formal portraits have an identifiable style that usually combines bright lighting with almost supernatural hard- edge focus on the full body. She cajoles her subjects to face her camera unblinkingly. She seems to have them say: Like it or not, this is me.
Queen Elizabeth II, Bill Clinton, Michael Jordan, Jack Nicholson, Nelson Mandela, Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, and Eudora ...