Annie leibevoitz

Famous Photographer Research Project - Annie Leibovitz's Life

  • Personal Life - Born

    Born on October 2nd in Waterbury, Connecticut.
  • Personal Life - 18 Years

    Enrolled at San Francisco Art Institute.
  • Work Life - 21 Years Old

    Applied for a job and began working at Rolling Stone.
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    Work Life - 23 Years Old to 33 Years Old

    Became Chief Photographer at Rolling Stone. Held this position for the next decade.
  • Work Life - 34 Years Old

    Left Rolling Stone and began working at Vanity Fair.
  • Awards & Honors - 38 Years Old

    Won Clio Award for Leibovitz's work on the American Express Advertising Campaign
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    Personal Life - 40 Years Old to 55 Years Old

    Begins a relationship with Susan Sontag. The relationship ends in 2004 with Sontag's death.
  • Awards & Honors - 42 Years Old

    More than 200 photographs from Leibovitz’s collection were exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. She was the first woman to be so honored. A book was also published to go along with the show titled “Photographs: Annie Leibovitz, 1970-1990”
  • Work Life - 47 Years Old

    Worked as the official photographer for the Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia.
  • Personal/Work Life - 50 Years Old

    Leibovitz published her first book “Women”. In this story Leibovitz presented an array of female images from Supreme Court justices to Vegas showgirls to coal miners and farmers. The project is set to be continued in a travelling exhibition making a London debut in January 2016.
  • Personal Life - 51 Years Old

    Leibovitz has her first daughter, Sarah Leibovitz.
  • Personal/Work Life - 54 Years Old

    Leibovitz published second book “American Music”. This book has emphasis on important figures in the realm of blues, country, folk, hip-hop and jazz.
  • Personal Life - 56 Years Old

    Leibovitz has twin daughters, Susan and Samuelle Leibovitz, with the help of a surrogate mother.
  • Awards & Honors - 57 Years Old

    Brooklyn Museum of Art presented the retrospective "Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer’s Life, 1990-2005,".
  • Personal/Work Life - 63 Years Old

    Leibovitz published her third book, “Pilgrimage”. This book focused on items associated with famous figures like Abraham Lincoln and Marian Anderson.