Annie Leibovitz, life through a camera. Next Friday February 18 will be screened in the documentary group
Bazán "Annie Leibovitz, life through a camera." The documentary, directed by Barbara Leibovitz, Annie's younger sister, reveals for the first time the family intimacy of the photographer, who speaks openly about her relationship with the recently deceased writer and political activist Susan Sontag or their problems with drugs.
addition, the program displays photo sessions with George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Keira Knightley and Kirsten Dunst and features interviews with relatives of Annie and senior representatives of culture and politics
as Mikhail Baryshnikov, Hillary Clinton, Whoopi Goldberg, Mick Jagger, Demi Moore, Yoko Ono, Keith Richards, Arnold Schwarzenegger or Patti Smith.
Regular contributor to prestigious magazines such as Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, Life, Esquire and Vogue, Leibovitz is the author of which has recently been considered by a U.S. association of newspaper editors as the best cover of the twentieth century: the Rolling Stone's January 22, 1981, in which John Lennon, naked, embracing his wife Yoko Ono, which was taken just hours before the murder of British musician.
It was the first woman to exhibit her work at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC
In 1983 he won a Grammy for Best cover of an album the following year was honored by the American Society of Magazine Editors as Photographer of the Year .
In 1988 he received the Clio award for advertising campaign for American Express in April 2000 and the Library of Congress gave him the title "living legend."
Although known for his celebrity portraits, Leibovitz has practiced landscape and documentary photography, hired by the publisher Condé Nast Publications since 1993.
His images are represented since 1977 by the photojournalism agency Contact Press Images.
photographer Annie Leibovitz is the world's highest paid.