I’m an amateur photographer using only my iPhone 13. I’ve discovered that what my eyes see and love are what is important for now. Maybe someday I’ll get an actual camera, but until then I’ll subscribe to this channel and any other I can find. This channel is purely the best I’ve seen so far so I’m here to stay. Thanks so much!
I came across one of your videos the other day and decided I needed your channel as a place to explore photography in terms of its purpose. I have no one to talk to about why photography fascinates me and why I enjoy it. I am a hobbyist, started in my early 70s, and photography has enriched my life so much. I have chosen to start at the beginning of your channel and move toward the present. Thank you for creating this channel.
As a keen portrait photographer myself, Annie Leibovitz's portraits have been a great inspiration for years. Even her commercial work is fascinating. I was interested in her earlier years and her more documentary style black and white photos, but they did not have quite the same impact on me.
Love Annie's eye! Love all the periods of her work; one more documentary and the other more artistic/creative. She's excellent at both. Definitely an inspiration to me.
My coffee table holds one of Annie's books, with John and Yoko on the cover!! It has been displayed one way or another in my homes throughout the years! I love her passion!
I have been a fan of Annie Leibovitz for a number of years. My most favorite style has to be her documentary photography it gives the insite of real people and their environment at the time.
Maybe my comment is off topic maybe not. It's a pitty Annie's staff don't get the credit they (in my opinion) deserve. Seeing her in action really makes me think who is the actual photographer these days. It seems like a teamwork of many people and I find it odd that those people aren't named. I love her early work very much and would love to see more of those even today rather than photoshopped mystery ones which just don't move me at all. Sharpness has its limits. Your channel is something special - very appreciated, thank you. 🌸
Hi Kristina. Thanks for your comment. I suppose that's the environment Annie works in. It's full to the brim of people to do the tiniest thing. Of course having assistants is nothing new, David Bailey to name just one, started as an assistant. He loaded the film, set the camera, did everything pretty much except trip the shutter. For me, I see photographers like her more as directors. They have a vision and over time have developed enough klout to have money, time and people at her disposal to fulfil that vision. Of course in the grand scheme of things most photographers don't have a staff of 100's to fulfil their whims. Glad you enjoy the channel, thanks ever so much :D
@@ThePhotographicEye exactly, she has evolve from a photographer in a kinda journalistic portrait to a creative director than portraits people, the assistant work it is important of course, they make the job easier and stressless but the creative mind its Anne, similar to the aproach of Gregory Crewdson, he did even doesn't press the shutter on most of his recent pieces.
I agree to some extent but was there staff when she worked for the Rolling Stones. At the time she developed her style and the "artist eye" granted today she can afford assistance and staff and they should be recognized but at what end. Maybe they should go out on a limb and spread their wings into notoriety.
@@ivandelahuerta where do you see the names of the assistants of Damien Hurst or Jeff Koons or all the other great artists of the last four hundred years who had studios full of assistants? You don't x
Annie... Extremely talented and an incredible influence to the most novice of photographers. She is what every amateur photographer wants to be. She is to photography what electricity is to a lightbulb.
She is definitely an exceptional photographer. I personally am drawn to her more painterly works. I found her photo of Queen Elizabeth II to be extremely appealing; she has captured something personal in that photo--I believe. This is true in many of her portraits. While photos of people don't draw me personally as an amateur photographer, I enjoy looking at them when a master like Annie takes them. Once again as with all your videos, brilliantly done and extremely helpful.
Yes, I've enjoyed her painterly feel the last 10 years or so. It's a shame in a way it's been so widely copied. Thanks for commenting and I'm pleased you enjoy the episodes.
Thank you for sharing this. The real message is, that annie and any other person who produces amazing results does that because they have huge references of work that they did themselves or by others. It's always a process...and it never ends. It's always just a way to perfection - you never arrive because it's all about the journey. The good news is, that you can become anyone you like if you're willing to put in the work.
Beautiful video; quick correction photo @4:02 was not shot by HCB but Rui Palha 2010 the pigeons and famously mistaken to be shot by HCB which is not correct!!
Honestly I find myself thinking that many shots especially the Polaroids with Lennon and Ono would have been binned if I was the Photographer. I understand the circumstances of the creation and the sudden tragedy, but after all they are iconic for their symbolic value rather than the quality, … at least that’s how I see those pictures. And that’s what I find so amazing about your channel, we learn to appreciate our shots better ….
I love her early work but I find fascinating the evolution she’s had, that’s bold and I love it in every artist doing so, not to get stagnant and complacent
I do love more the more contemporary work of Annie and the advantages of a exquisite digital post-processing she and her team applies to the images to create such unique look
Photographers using the camera to shield themselves from the emotional pain in their lives. --- YES. I have often berated myself for not making images during significant points of my life, like the birth of my children or the death of my father. But I have always said, those pictures weren't needed; I have the memories at that's good enough for me. I don't want to hide from either the joy or the pain in my life. I need to feel to be a human being. Thank you for your insight.
Personally, I think that portraits of David Lynch and Isabella Roselini are the best photo series she has ever done. Thank you for your videos, much appreciated 💞
What a nice retrospective of Annie's life so far. From today, I like here early works for Rolling Stone Magazine because these are documents of a time where not everybody took a camera in their pockets...
I really love and enjoy your insight and your method of sharing all your experience and love for photography. You inspire all of us tremendously. I was kind of a lukewarm fan of Annie until now. You've introduced me to a much wider and in depth view of Annie and her work. All of your presentations are rich with information that are nothing short of brilliance. You are so right in suggesting to us people like Sean Tucker and Ted Forbes to name a few. I love many of the same Toobers who have these kinds of attributes. My friend you have one of the best channels on the tube. Thank you so much. FL.
As a teenager, I remember how powerful those images were of John and Yoko, Woopi Goldberg and Demi Moore, while I had not yet known who Annie was. It was during the 80's that her provocative contextual style pulled me in to photography as a way to explore the world around me.
Fantastic - I thoroughly adore Annie and her work - she fascinates me. She could be described as a modren day Leonardo with the such demand and status. I've never really got into art but I what I experience looking at her work I suspect is the same others get from classic paintings etc.
She is an inspiration for my photography. All periods have something to inspire. That course that you mention also taught me how important it is to have my family moments registered. Very cool video!!
You are so good! This is a well done presentation, I will comment more later on when I get a minute between teaching art classes, as I am having lunch now and this video made my food taste better!!!
Hi! If i'm not mistaken, the photograph at 4:02 its not from HCB, but from a really good photographer from Portugal. This is not the first time i see this error on youtube
Could you link to them, so I could credit them rather than HCB! Thanks for picking it up, this was an early video I produced so there are a few little errors in there.
Heavy! I liked Annie Leibovitz's germinal raw documentary work. It's always that image of the inmate and his girlfriend? in Soledad Prison on conjugal visit day that's burned into the back of my memory. The intensity and discord that she caught between the two is two intense to ignore. It was the time I got my first 35mm camera, a Miranda Sensorex my uncle sold me.
Annie is one of my photographic inspirations. I am also hugely influenced by Robert Frank, Steve McCurry, Seydou Keita, Peter Brew-Bevan and any other photographer who is better than myself (a lot really).
On Photography by Susan Sontag have read it a few times so I have heard of her Alex....she even mentions a Polaroid SX 70 in her book an American classic camera....
I find her contemporary work most compelling. Really interesting, because I was just studying John Singer Sargeant as a source of photographic inspiration, and you made the comparison.
Glad someone liked the John Singer Sargeant link! I love his paintings and compositions. If you get a chance to see his work in person (and Annies) do so!
Hi Caroline, thanks for the feedback and your comment. Glad you liked the video. BTW, this was my 2nd video ever, so now the images s stay on screen longer :D
I like Leibovitz earlier celeb' portraits mostly for their documentary properties, but I find much of her later work visually fascinating like, as you say, renaissance paintings. Wouldn't mind having her royalties either :)
Apparently her finances are a bit all over the place, and IIRC, she sold her interest in the images around 2008, though this is possibly something I only half remember.
Thank you! An excellent insight into an iconic photographer. Annie shifted from film to digital and is a master of both mediums. I think she had shifted to purely digital photography.
Great use of 'plucked up' after showing Tiny Tim of tulips fame. Love the video and the inspiration behind it. Some will like her some won't, but the main thing is to take what is useful.
It’s very interesting your first two videos were Avedon who grew with Harper Bazaar and Leibovitz who did with Rolling Stone magazine. Maybe you could do a series on the photography centric magazines era (those two but also Life, NG, ...).
It's difficult to comment! I'm gobsmaked by this series of videos, and the enlightened commentary. Does this amount to a comment ....? Meanwhile, thank you.
At :11, The Reagan Stomp Vanity Fair photo, for some reason I'm remembering this was taken by another VF photographer, but I don't remember who. Do you know any way I could check this and verify that my memory is playing me tricks and who exactly did take the picture? Thanks!
The photo you showed of the woman walking up the stairs and attributed to Cartier-Bresson is not his photograph. It was taken and is owned by Rui Palha. The HCB foundation has documented it in a letter that it is not a HCB photograph. I just went through this because I used the photograph the same mistaken way for a webinar for The Photographic Society of America on street photography.
Hi J. Yes, thanks, I've already spoken with Mr Palha about it and there's a link to his site in the description box. It's given me an idea for an episode actually...
I love her work up until probably around the time of the Demi Moore shot. The Stones on tour stuff is fantastic & I think the Rolling Stone feature shots were a great balance between capturing a facet of the subject & superb but not overbearing technique. Nowadays a lot of it is too photoshoppy for my liking and much of it doesn't stand out from a lot of other photographers who are doing the same sort of thing (though not with such famous subject matter maybe..). She made her mark and was massively influential however & the earlier work is iconic.
Hi Chris. The more 'fantasy' type stuff I'm not super keen on, but her 'modern' portraits (like the thumbnail) I do rather like. Of course the reason why it doesn't really stand out is that it's an easy style/vibe to copy and there's a ton of it about as you mentioned. These days her portraits seem to feel they are 'of' someone, rather than 'with' someone. Like the 80's stuff, that felt like it was a collaboration (Whoopy in the milk for example).
In response to Alex's request to comment, I'm more interested in photographs that explore the subjects rather than those in which the subjects are used to explore photographers' visions. This is not hard and fast because photographs are not necessarily or always distinctly one or the other. So, for example, I'm seriously underwhelmed by Philippe Halsman's "Dali Atomicus" with everything flying about (a bucket of water and the cat and all) with Dali leaping and looking excited by the whole event as compared to Jean Dieuzaide's "Dali in the Water". I don't know who's idea were the little bows on Dali's mustache, but, as much as there's a great deal of Dali in both, the first took a lot of exposures to achieve it (whatever "it" is), whereas the other could be a snapshot. Leibovitz delved in both genres (the madly construed and plainly representative) and, as I suggested, I prefer something closer to reportage of the soul that construction of the bizarre. Of course, the portraits I most appreciate explore photographers' visions as a matter of principle, but not so much using the subject as exposing it. I hope I'm making sense.
The painterly style of photography by Annie is difficult to emulate . I like more the photographs which are not cluttered and the background does not clash.
If Annie didn't say that she and Susan had an intimate relationship outside of a friendship, then what gives you licenses to project your suspicions? I realize that this is 2021 where everyone feels ENTITLED to express their thoughts, feelings, and opinions as facts--but that doesn't make it right.
These rumors aren’t unique nor made up by Alex. And yes it’s 2021 and we have a right to discuss all aspects making a great photographer and thus a public person, this definitely includes powerful relations. Hey man it was Susan Sonntag ….
“ Of all people encountered, I’ve learned that gay men are the most visual” - retired life magazine photographer (forget name). Makes sense; they are designers, decorators, artists etc.
She is undoubtedly a good photographer however I feel that many of these famous photographers became famous because of who they photographed. You will get noticed if you photograph Royalty and fame. I prefer photographers like Alfonso a Spanish photographer. There are many like him. Just as good as many of the famous photographers but not well known. Also his images have historical merit as well as being wonderful to look at. My library is full of photographers like him. I don't own a single book from David Bailey, Annie Leibovitz, or Lord Snowdon.
All of them have their merits. It's sometimes easy to forget that while a lot of these photographer are now famous, and the people they have photographed are famous, it wasn't always the case. Bailey didn't start out photographing famous people, Jean Shrimpton for example wasn't exactly a high flyer when Bailey first photographed her. My feeling that they (the photographers) end up in the public consciousness, unlike say the photographer you mentioned, is that the work they produce is consumed on a mass scale. In someway I guess that's the same point you're making. And to be frank, it's a view I used to share too. Now I'm more of the opinion that photographers who stick around in the mainstream do so because they are good at what they do and manage to stay relevant. Is that the same as being a gifted photographer? Well, that's another topic for another day. Thanks for your comment
I think the proliferation of information to how many photographs are done has made people lose their luster when thinking about her. Her light that so many people would oooh over because they didn't know how it was done for a very long time, people learned that it was often just a very big soft box. She has had some very good ideas with using celebrity status, such as the Meryl Streep photo and the Schwarzenegger photos of him on the skis and there was another of him on a motorcycle with a cigar. But the majority of her photos are really a famous person and a soft box. In the vane of many popular IG accounts, as long as the girl is pretty, people will think you did something grand. Overall I've always considered her not really seeing things that might get overlooked, not really exploring a subject, or if you replaced the subject with an unknown person the photo wouldn't hold up. In contrast to someone like Irving Penn, Ernst Haas, or Gordon Parks. Even Mark Seliger is someone I consider more idea for a photograph first, level of fame of the subject comes second. She's good, but her icon status to me is largely due to the people being so famous.
I’m an amateur photographer using only my iPhone 13. I’ve discovered that what my eyes see and love are what is important for now. Maybe someday I’ll get an actual camera, but until then I’ll subscribe to this channel and any other I can find. This channel is purely the best I’ve seen so far so I’m here to stay. Thanks so much!
The lighting in the Patrick Stewart/Ian McKellen image... sublime!
I came across one of your videos the other day and decided I needed your channel as a place to explore photography in terms of its purpose. I have no one to talk to about why photography fascinates me and why I enjoy it. I am a hobbyist, started in my early 70s, and photography has enriched my life so much. I have chosen to start at the beginning of your channel and move toward the present. Thank you for creating this channel.
Awesome, thank you! And thank you for watching
As a keen portrait photographer myself, Annie Leibovitz's portraits have been a great inspiration for years. Even her commercial work is fascinating. I was interested in her earlier years and her more documentary style black and white photos, but they did not have quite the same impact on me.
Love Annie's eye! Love all the periods of her work; one more documentary and the other more artistic/creative. She's excellent at both. Definitely an inspiration to me.
Glad you enjoyed it!
A beautifully crafted, distilled, exposition of her life and work. Much appreciated, thank you.
My coffee table holds one of Annie's books, with John and Yoko on the cover!! It has been displayed one way or another in my homes throughout the years! I love her passion!
I have been a fan of Annie Leibovitz for a number of years. My most favorite style has to be her documentary photography it gives the insite of real people and their environment at the time.
I love how she got from "some kind of groopy of the rolling stones" to picture the queen, awesome, and her pictures are nice!
Maybe my comment is off topic maybe not. It's a pitty Annie's staff don't get the credit they (in my opinion) deserve. Seeing her in action really makes me think who is the actual photographer these days. It seems like a teamwork of many people and I find it odd that those people aren't named.
I love her early work very much and would love to see more of those even today rather than photoshopped mystery ones which just don't move me at all. Sharpness has its limits.
Your channel is something special - very appreciated, thank you. 🌸
Hi Kristina.
Thanks for your comment.
I suppose that's the environment Annie works in. It's full to the brim of people to do the tiniest thing. Of course having assistants is nothing new, David Bailey to name just one, started as an assistant. He loaded the film, set the camera, did everything pretty much except trip the shutter.
For me, I see photographers like her more as directors. They have a vision and over time have developed enough klout to have money, time and people at her disposal to fulfil that vision. Of course in the grand scheme of things most photographers don't have a staff of 100's to fulfil their whims.
Glad you enjoy the channel, thanks ever so much :D
@@ThePhotographicEye exactly, she has evolve from a photographer in a kinda journalistic portrait to a creative director than portraits people, the assistant work it is important of course, they make the job easier and stressless but the creative mind its Anne, similar to the aproach of Gregory Crewdson, he did even doesn't press the shutter on most of his recent pieces.
I agree to some extent but was there staff when she worked for the Rolling Stones. At the time she developed her style and the "artist eye" granted today she can afford assistance and staff and they should be recognized but at what end. Maybe they should go out on a limb and spread their wings into notoriety.
@@ivandelahuerta where do you see the names of the assistants of Damien Hurst or Jeff Koons or all the other great artists of the last four hundred years who had studios full of assistants? You don't x
Martin Schollar did most of her lighting and sets for years.. Got zero credit and a terrible contract
Annie... Extremely talented and an incredible influence to the most novice of photographers. She is what every amateur photographer wants to be. She is to photography what electricity is to a lightbulb.
Thanks for the comment Will!
Glad you found it enjoyable..
She is definitely an exceptional photographer. I personally am drawn to her more painterly works. I found her photo of Queen Elizabeth II to be extremely appealing; she has captured something personal in that photo--I believe. This is true in many of her portraits. While photos of people don't draw me personally as an amateur photographer, I enjoy looking at them when a master like Annie takes them. Once again as with all your videos, brilliantly done and extremely helpful.
Yes, I've enjoyed her painterly feel the last 10 years or so. It's a shame in a way it's been so widely copied.
Thanks for commenting and I'm pleased you enjoy the episodes.
I found your vídeos yesterday and I'm obsessed...😄 I love the way you "expose" Art!
Thank you for sharing this. The real message is, that annie and any other person who produces amazing results does that because they have huge references of work that they did themselves or by others. It's always a process...and it never ends. It's always just a way to perfection - you never arrive because it's all about the journey. The good news is, that you can become anyone you like if you're willing to put in the work.
Beautiful video; quick correction photo @4:02 was not shot by HCB but Rui Palha 2010 the pigeons and famously mistaken to be shot by HCB which is not correct!!
Honestly I find myself thinking that many shots especially the Polaroids with Lennon and Ono would have been binned if I was the Photographer. I understand the circumstances of the creation and the sudden tragedy, but after all they are iconic for their symbolic value rather than the quality, … at least that’s how I see those pictures. And that’s what I find so amazing about your channel, we learn to appreciate our shots better ….
I love her early work but I find fascinating the evolution she’s had, that’s bold and I love it in every artist doing so, not to get stagnant and complacent
Thanks for watching David
The contemporary photo work of Annie Leibovitz. Does riveting work.
Glad you enjoyed the video :D
I do love her celebrity portraits. Mastery of the image is shown.
I do love more the more contemporary work of Annie and the advantages of a exquisite digital post-processing she and her team applies to the images to create such unique look
Photographers using the camera to shield themselves from the emotional pain in their lives. --- YES. I have often berated myself for not making images during significant points of my life, like the birth of my children or the death of my father. But I have always said, those pictures weren't needed; I have the memories at that's good enough for me. I don't want to hide from either the joy or the pain in my life. I need to feel to be a human being. Thank you for your insight.
Personally, I think that portraits of David Lynch and Isabella Roselini are the best photo series she has ever done. Thank you for your videos, much appreciated 💞
What a nice retrospective of Annie's life so far. From today, I like here early works for Rolling Stone Magazine because these are documents of a time where not everybody took a camera in their pockets...
I love her work. She really manages to polarize opinion about both herself and her work though.
I think most 'popular' photographers do TBH
Just a great introduction to the famous photographer! Thank you very much, trully helped me.
You're very welcome! Thanks ever so much Eleni
I can’t choose one area of her work. She’s amazing to me.
Voy a volver a mirar este video pero en pantalla grande, son imágenes increíbles!
I really love and enjoy your insight and your method of sharing all your experience and love for photography. You inspire all of us tremendously. I was kind of a lukewarm fan of Annie until now. You've introduced me to a much wider and in depth view of Annie and her work. All of your presentations are rich with information that are nothing short of brilliance. You are so right in suggesting to us people like Sean Tucker and Ted Forbes to name a few. I love many of the same Toobers who have these kinds of attributes.
My friend you have one of the best channels on the tube. Thank you so much. FL.
Loved her Rolling Stone Photos! She is an amazing artist
It's always good to see more than the expected photographs.
Alex, thank you for sharing so much, and so honestly
Thanks for watching
Thank you
The pick of Leo .. so beautiful picture
As a teenager, I remember how powerful those images were of John and Yoko, Woopi Goldberg and Demi Moore, while I had not yet known who Annie was. It was during the 80's that her provocative contextual style pulled me in to photography as a way to explore the world around me.
thanks for sharing!! really interesting details about the life of Annie
I had no idea she's done so much!!
Yep, I think people tend to forget she's been working since the 60's!
Fantastic - I thoroughly adore Annie and her work - she fascinates me. She could be described as a modren day Leonardo with the such demand and status. I've never really got into art but I what I experience looking at her work I suspect is the same others get from classic paintings etc.
Yes, there's a lot of classical influence in her current work
What a great series, thanks for posting.
Glad you enjoy it!
Love the images she did when she shot film! Less photoshopped images
Nice job covering her life and work.
Pilgrimage is a wonderful book and idea.
Great As Usual !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks again!
Another great insight beautifully presented
Thank you kindly!
Very interesting insight into Annie’s work. I love her contemporary work, beautifully lit and posed.
She is an inspiration for my photography. All periods have something to inspire. That course that you mention also taught me how important it is to have my family moments registered. Very cool video!!
where did you sign up?
Great channel!
Hope you continue this useful presentation and don't become the victim of youtube algorithm addiction
Great video. I really like the Rolling Stones pictures. They so capture the feeling of that time.
Thank you very much!
Thanks to your video, i just learned about her time here in the Philippines. Great channel. Looking forward to more educational videos.
Welcome aboard!
This was an excellent discussion of quite an iconic photographer. Keep up the excellent work :)
Thanks Anthony, I'm glad you liked it.
Thanks Alex I really enjoyed this one.
You are so good! This is a well done presentation, I will comment more later on when I get a minute between teaching art classes, as I am having lunch now and this video made my food taste better!!!
Hi! If i'm not mistaken, the photograph at 4:02 its not from HCB, but from a really good photographer from Portugal. This is not the first time i see this error on youtube
Could you link to them, so I could credit them rather than HCB!
Thanks for picking it up, this was an early video I produced so there are a few little errors in there.
Rui Palha
Fine analysis as always...🎯
Thank you ! I really liked her earlier work the most. ))) Super video ! )))
Thank you! Cheers!
Fabulous. More please.
Of course :D
Heavy! I liked Annie Leibovitz's germinal raw documentary work. It's always that image of the inmate and his girlfriend? in Soledad Prison on conjugal visit day that's burned into the back of my memory. The intensity and discord that she caught between the two is two intense to ignore. It was the time I got my first 35mm camera, a Miranda Sensorex my uncle sold me.
This was simply superb 👌
Thank you! Cheers!
I really like her work rolling stone, great video
Thank you Natalia, glad you enjoyed it.
Fantastic video Thank you she is my absolute favourite people photographer. 👍🏻
Glad you enjoyed it.
Annie is one of my photographic inspirations. I am also hugely influenced by Robert Frank, Steve McCurry, Seydou Keita, Peter Brew-Bevan and any other photographer who is better than myself (a lot really).
On Photography by Susan Sontag have read it a few times so I have heard of her Alex....she even mentions a Polaroid SX 70 in her book an American classic camera....
I really like this "Photographic Eye" series. For accuracy - isn't the Keith Richards shot at 5.59 by Ethan Russell? He certainly claims it as his.
I find her contemporary work most compelling. Really interesting, because I was just studying John Singer Sargeant as a source of photographic inspiration, and you made the comparison.
Glad someone liked the John Singer Sargeant link! I love his paintings and compositions.
If you get a chance to see his work in person (and Annies) do so!
Thank you for this wonderful channel.
Glad you enjoy it!
I like her early work but also her new work where she build theese dramatic scenes and of course her great portraits of Queen Elisabeth II.
It's almost like she went back to her painter roots
I was thinking John Singer Sargent as an influence on Leibovitz. Especially the portrait of the Queen seems very evocative of a Sargent portrait.
This is really great. I just wish we would see her photos longer. We could just see the photos with your narration in the background?
Hi Caroline, thanks for the feedback and your comment. Glad you liked the video. BTW, this was my 2nd video ever, so now the images s stay on screen longer :D
@@ThePhotographicEye Great stuff! Thanks :)
You can hit the pause button anytime.
@@kokokuvat5310 You're right. That's what I did :)
Brilliant video again, thanks
Glad you enjoyed it
Wonderful.. thanks for sharing ❤️🙏🏽
I like Leibovitz earlier celeb' portraits mostly for their documentary properties, but I find much of her later work visually fascinating like, as you say, renaissance paintings. Wouldn't mind having her royalties either :)
Apparently her finances are a bit all over the place, and IIRC, she sold her interest in the images around 2008, though this is possibly something I only half remember.
@@ThePhotographicEye Yes, she seems one of those who bumbles from disaster to disaster whilst still managing to get by if not do well.
Thank you! An excellent insight into an iconic photographer. Annie shifted from film to digital and is a master of both mediums. I think she had shifted to purely digital photography.
Not sure it it's 100% digital, but I imagine most of her work will be lately.
Great use of 'plucked up' after showing Tiny Tim of tulips fame.
Love the video and the inspiration behind it. Some will like her some won't, but the main thing is to take what is useful.
If you take a lot of photos of famous people you too will become famous.
Wonderful video portrait. Thanks for posting it. Subscribed!
Thanks for the sub!
many thanks, always a pleasure to learn from your videos
My pleasure Christian, glad you enjoy them.
It’s very interesting your first two videos were Avedon who grew with Harper Bazaar and Leibovitz who did with Rolling Stone magazine. Maybe you could do a series on the photography centric magazines era (those two but also Life, NG, ...).
That's actually a really good suggestion. The era of the magazine seems to have been forgotten quite quickly.
Very interesting profile. Learned a lot about her I didn't know.
Glad I could introduce you
Love your channel!
great video. Thank you!
😄👍
It's difficult to comment! I'm gobsmaked by this series of videos, and the enlightened commentary. Does this amount to a comment ....? Meanwhile, thank you.
Hi Daniel - yep, that's a comment! Thanks ever so much I'm glad you enjoy them.
Awesome video
At :11, The Reagan Stomp Vanity Fair photo, for some reason I'm remembering this was taken by another VF photographer, but I don't remember who. Do you know any way I could check this and verify that my memory is playing me tricks and who exactly did take the picture? Thanks!
The photo you showed of the woman walking up the stairs and attributed to Cartier-Bresson is not his photograph. It was taken and is owned by Rui Palha. The HCB foundation has documented it in a letter that it is not a HCB photograph. I just went through this because I used the photograph the same mistaken way for a webinar for The Photographic Society of America on street photography.
Hi J.
Yes, thanks, I've already spoken with Mr Palha about it and there's a link to his site in the description box. It's given me an idea for an episode actually...
@@ThePhotographicEye Cool!
💕 thank you!
🙏
Her group photos are quite something.
Very painterly
I'm from Silver Spring, MD
I love her work up until probably around the time of the Demi Moore shot. The Stones on tour stuff is fantastic & I think the Rolling Stone feature shots were a great balance between capturing a facet of the subject & superb but not overbearing technique. Nowadays a lot of it is too photoshoppy for my liking and much of it doesn't stand out from a lot of other photographers who are doing the same sort of thing (though not with such famous subject matter maybe..). She made her mark and was massively influential however & the earlier work is iconic.
Hi Chris. The more 'fantasy' type stuff I'm not super keen on, but her 'modern' portraits (like the thumbnail) I do rather like. Of course the reason why it doesn't really stand out is that it's an easy style/vibe to copy and there's a ton of it about as you mentioned.
These days her portraits seem to feel they are 'of' someone, rather than 'with' someone. Like the 80's stuff, that felt like it was a collaboration (Whoopy in the milk for example).
In response to Alex's request to comment, I'm more interested in photographs that explore the subjects rather than those in which the subjects are used to explore photographers' visions. This is not hard and fast because photographs are not necessarily or always distinctly one or the other. So, for example, I'm seriously underwhelmed by Philippe Halsman's "Dali Atomicus" with everything flying about (a bucket of water and the cat and all) with Dali leaping and looking excited by the whole event as compared to Jean Dieuzaide's "Dali in the Water". I don't know who's idea were the little bows on Dali's mustache, but, as much as there's a great deal of Dali in both, the first took a lot of exposures to achieve it (whatever "it" is), whereas the other could be a snapshot. Leibovitz delved in both genres (the madly construed and plainly representative) and, as I suggested, I prefer something closer to reportage of the soul that construction of the bizarre. Of course, the portraits I most appreciate explore photographers' visions as a matter of principle, but not so much using the subject as exposing it. I hope I'm making sense.
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You implied that Annie shot the Vanity Fair Ronald and Nancy Reagan dancing she didn’t it was shot by Harry Benson
Thank you for pointing out the error.
If I may ask, who is doing the teaching..Annie Leibovitz?
striving to be as good as Annie or maybe Mario Testino - a fantasy really -
What a heavy-hitter of a channel.
Thank you very much for watching. I really appreciate.
The painterly style of photography by Annie is difficult to emulate . I like more the photographs which are not cluttered and the background does not clash.
This is the new The Art of Photography channel. The old one has turned into a gear review channel.
Here's hoping that more people find the channel - thanks for being here.
If Annie didn't say that she and Susan had an intimate relationship outside of a friendship, then what gives you licenses to project your suspicions? I realize that this is 2021 where everyone feels ENTITLED to express their thoughts, feelings, and opinions as facts--but that doesn't make it right.
These rumors aren’t unique nor made up by Alex. And yes it’s 2021 and we have a right to discuss all aspects making a great photographer and thus a public person, this definitely includes powerful relations. Hey man it was Susan Sonntag ….
I have loved her work from her days at Rolling Stone, but after her finachel troubles her work has become (still excellent) more commercial.
I really liked her early work for the Rolling Stone. The latter looks technically superior, but I can't connect to it.
“ Of all people encountered, I’ve learned that gay men are the most visual” - retired life magazine photographer (forget name). Makes sense; they are designers, decorators, artists etc.
She is undoubtedly a good photographer however I feel that many of these famous photographers became famous because of who they photographed. You will get noticed if you photograph Royalty and fame.
I prefer photographers like Alfonso a Spanish photographer. There are many like him. Just as good as many of the famous photographers but not well known. Also his images have historical merit as well as being wonderful to look at. My library is full of photographers like him. I don't own a single book from David Bailey, Annie Leibovitz, or Lord Snowdon.
All of them have their merits. It's sometimes easy to forget that while a lot of these photographer are now famous, and the people they have photographed are famous, it wasn't always the case. Bailey didn't start out photographing famous people, Jean Shrimpton for example wasn't exactly a high flyer when Bailey first photographed her.
My feeling that they (the photographers) end up in the public consciousness, unlike say the photographer you mentioned, is that the work they produce is consumed on a mass scale. In someway I guess that's the same point you're making. And to be frank, it's a view I used to share too.
Now I'm more of the opinion that photographers who stick around in the mainstream do so because they are good at what they do and manage to stay relevant. Is that the same as being a gifted photographer? Well, that's another topic for another day.
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Is she great because she is a great photographer or is it more to the fact she had access to famous people.
I think the proliferation of information to how many photographs are done has made people lose their luster when thinking about her. Her light that so many people would oooh over because they didn't know how it was done for a very long time, people learned that it was often just a very big soft box.
She has had some very good ideas with using celebrity status, such as the Meryl Streep photo and the Schwarzenegger photos of him on the skis and there was another of him on a motorcycle with a cigar. But the majority of her photos are really a famous person and a soft box. In the vane of many popular IG accounts, as long as the girl is pretty, people will think you did something grand.
Overall I've always considered her not really seeing things that might get overlooked, not really exploring a subject, or if you replaced the subject with an unknown person the photo wouldn't hold up. In contrast to someone like Irving Penn, Ernst Haas, or Gordon Parks. Even Mark Seliger is someone I consider more idea for a photograph first, level of fame of the subject comes second.
She's good, but her icon status to me is largely due to the people being so famous.