Annie Leibovitz

Annie Leibovitz was born in 1949 in Connecticut, USA and began photographing for Rolling Stone in 1969 while still a student at the San Francisco Art Institute. Famed for her iconic images of celebrities, in 1983 she became chief photographer for Vanity Fair. Winner of numerous awards, her exhibitions have toured the world many times over. She is the author of several landmark books, most recently Women (1999), with an essay by Susan Sontag, and 2003's American Music (all Random House). In addition, she has covered battered women, and the conflicts in Sarajevo, Bosnia, and Rwanda. Recently, she worked with Bono and many high profile guests on a special Vanity Fair Africa edition. See all twenty cover images linked below. Other insightful videos are also linked below.
Bono, speaking of his Guest Editor work with Annie on the Vanity Fair Africa Edition: "Lastly, I've always imagined that if I hadn't been a singer I would have been a journalist. But, in truth, my bandmates saved me from disappointment, as I'm no natural editor. The fact that we have 20 covers for one issue bears testament to that. I am flat out of hyperbole to describe Annie Leibovitz, a devoted mother who set out on a world tour to photograph these cover stars—and inchoate in the company of such a team of wordsmiths and image-makers."
- Video - Annie shooting 20 covers for Vanity Fair Africa Issue
- Slideshow - All 20 Africa Issue Vanity Fair Covers
- Video - Annie's Shoot of Knut the Baby Polar Bear
- Video - Steffi Graf/Andre Agassi Louis Vuitton Photo Shoot
- Video - Her Nature Concervancy Shawangunk Mountains Shoot
Four Samples of the Twenty Africa Covers Linked Above

Excerpt from VF story including Annie's comments
"It's a visual chain letter," says Leibovitz, "spreading the message from person to person to person." Among them: a supermodel who fled Somalia with her family 37 years ago, a senator whose grandfather and father are buried in Africa, an actor who makes an annual return to a tiny village in Benin to see his family, a music superstar who adopted a child from Malawi, a former boxing champion who visited Ghana when no American sports figure had gone there before. And more—including a poet, an archbishop, a queen, a president, a rapper, a comedian, a talk-show host, and billionaire philanthropists. Leibovitz put together the 21 subjects in what was, she says, "a little like having a dinner party and trying to seat people next to certain people. These are incredible people of our time, involved in this effort to make Africa better, to get Africa self-sufficient, and to try to get rid of aids on the continent."
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