Tag: Annie Leibovitz

Her latest exhibition – Annie Leibovitz: The Early Years, 1970-1983 – also features a remarkable shot of Cartier-Bresson himself. “It’s a show about photography,” says Leibovitz. Reflecting the changing cultural role of photography itself, Leibovitz eased from photojournalism into portraiture, taking striking shots of the era’s great artists, from Andy Warhol to Richard Avedon, from Ansel Adams to that ambush shot of Cartier-Bresson. Her breakthrough moment comes towards the end of the show, with poets Tess Gallagher and Robert Penn Warren, both photographed for Life magazine. I find myself now trying to crawl back to this kind of work. Then he started talking and you sort of didn’t want him to. In the late 70s, Leibovitz went on a three-city tour with Smith and they’ve been friends ever since. Leibovitz recalls once shooting Smith for the cover of Rolling Stone. Leibovitz talks of “the ghost of Mapplethorpe” being around Smith. When you start working with Rolling Stone, how could you not be interested in journalism?