Annie Leibovitz: At Work – G25050101
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Ghost Ranch is pleased to present a talk and slide show with the photographer Annie Leibovitz about her new book “At Work,” a revised and updated edition of her seminal 2008 publication discussing the stories under which the portraits were made and her relationships with and thoughts about many of her subjects.
At Work is not presented as a stand alone lecture and can only be seen in conjunction with any of Photo Week (April 27-May 3) workshops which include:
Portrait Photography Amid Nature’s Beauty with David Rider
Environmental Storytelling with Katie Orlinsky
Photo Fundamentals with Sandy Kaplan
Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Photography with Jennie Hirsh
Cyanotypes: Photography with the Sun with Carol Schrader
Instructor
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Annie LeibovitzAnnie Leibovitz became a working photographer while she was still a student at the San Francisco Art Institute. She began taking pictures in the summer of 1968 and two years later one of her photographs was on the cover of Rolling Stone, which was then a groundbreaking counterculture magazine based in San Francisco. She was Rolling Stone’s chief photographer by 1973. By 1983, when she left Rolling Stone to join Vanity Fair and then Vogue, her photographs had become widely recognizable and distinctive interpretations of the contemporary landscape. Leibovitz was influenced early on by the personal style of photographic reportage developed by Robert Frank and by the photojournalism of Henri Cartier Bresson. The intimate engagement with her subjects evident in her journalism can be seen in the formal portraits of well-known people that she would later become known for. Intimacy remained a given in the work even as the range and approach of the photographs broadened. Over the years she would move from black-and-white to color, from covering rock concerts to making portraits of heads of state, from reportage to fashion, from graphically simple and straightforward composition to conceptually intricate digitally-based narratives. She is the recipient of many honors, including the International Center of Photography’s Lifetime Achievement Award, the Centenary Medal of the Royal Photographic Society in London, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art Award to Distinguished Women in the Arts, the Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities, and the Prix de Photographie de l’Académie des beaux-arts—William Klein. She is a Commandeur in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and has been designated a Living Legend by the United States Library of Congress. Several collections of her work have been published. They include Annie Leibovitz : Photographs (1983); Annie Leibovitz : Photographs 1970–1990 (1991); Olympic Portraits (1996); Women (1999), in collaboration with Susan Sontag; American Music (2003); A Photographer’s Life, 1990-2005 (2006); Annie Leibovitz at Work (2008, 2018 and 2024); Pilgrimage (2011); Annie Leibovitz : Portraits, 2005–2016 (2017); Annie Leibovitz: The Early Years, 1970–1983 (2018), and Wonderland (2021).Exhibitions of Leibovitz’s work have appeared at museums and galleries all over the world, including the National Portrait Gallery and the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C., the International Center of Photography in New York, the Brooklyn Museum, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, the National Portrait Gallery in London, the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, and LUMA Arles.
Annie lives in New York with her three children, Sarah, Susan, and Samuelle.