Annie Leibovitz

I’m not certain why I hadn’t seen it before, but I watched Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens on Ovation TV this weekend and it’s easily the best documentary about a photographer that I’ve seen. Whether you love her or loathe her (and there is rarely a middle ground when it comes to Annie) this documentary will definitely help you understand her. Spanning five decades this documentary is a wonderful look at the evolution and career arc of an artist from her early reportage to her current...Read Full Story

  Posted by Fred Langa via brainpickings.org A glass negative of a multiple-lens portrait of Lincoln made on Feb. 9, 1864, by Anthony Berger at the Brady Gallery in Washington, D.C. more: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2011/11/08/pilgrimage-annie-leibovitz/ Permalink Leave a comment  »Read Full Story

Most of us know how amazing the iPhone camera is, for a smartphone camera, that is. But noted photographer Annie Leibovitz, who’s widely known for her classic portraits of such individuals as John Lennon, Bill Gates, Sting and Queen Elizabeth II has gone a step further and personally recommended (in a televised interview with MSNBC anchor Brian Williams) the usage of the iPhone as really the “snapshot camera of today.” You can’t really get better advertising than that, eh? In response to...Read Full Story

Most of us know how amazing the iPhone camera is, for a smartphone camera, that is. But noted photographer Annie Leibovitz, who’s widely known for her classic portraits of such individuals as John Lennon, Bill Gates, Sting and Queen Elizabeth II has gone a step further and personally recommended (in a televised interview with MSNBC anchor Brian Williams) the usage of the iPhone as really the “snapshot camera of today.” You can’t really get better advertising than that, eh? In response to a...Read Full Story

Last week I had posted the Annie Leibovitz Lightroom Preset , generating a decent amount of buzz within certain circles of the photographic community. Montreal-based photographer Serhan Oksay picked up the preset and put it to work . While his use wasn’t exactly what I had originally envisioned, his results (posted above) show a bit of the breadth of this preset’s flexibility. As Serhan mentioned in his blog post , this particular preset works best when applied to images shot in RAW within...Read Full Story