Photographer: Annie Leibovitz

Annie Leibovitz

Annie Leibovitz was born in Connecticut in 1949. Her father was a lieutant colonel in the U.S. Air Force so she moved a lot as a child, which allowed her many different scenes to photograph.

In 1970 she began working as a photographer for Rolling Stone magazine.
These are some of her covers.

The third one of John Lennon and Yoko Ono became quite famous, as Lennon was killed 5 hours later. 

Leibovitz was trying to recreate the kissing scene from Double Fantasy album cover.

Leibovitz said this about the shoot: "What is interesting is she said she'd take her top off and I said, 'Leave everything on' - not really preconceiving the picture at all. Then he curled up next to her and it was very, very strong. You couldn't help but feel that he was cold and he looked like he was clinging on to her. I think it was amazing to look at the first Polaroid and they were both very excited. John said, 'You've captured out relationship exactly. Promise me it'll be on the cover.' I looked him in the eye and we shook on it."  

After working at Rolling Stone for 10 years, she then worked at Vanity Fair, where she got to photograph a wider range of subjects.

 Two of her more famous shots at Vanity Fair was her shot of a naked and pregnant Demi Moore and a shot of Whoopi Goldberg in a bath of milk.

Another project she has worked on recently was the Disney Parks "Year of a Million Dreams" campaign for The Walt Disney Company.
Some of her gorgeous shots for said project are below.