Annie Leibovitz, a true maverick of the photographic arts, began her journey during a period of cultural and economic revolutions. It was at that point that she, as an artist, began to blossom conceptually. She studied at the San Francisco School of Art where painting was her preferred medium. It was later that she became interested in photographic arts.
Today she is one of the most respected woman photographers, her work has been exhibited in several museums and galleries around the world, and is easy recognizable as hers. Within the years she evolve a personal style whish we could name it as dramatic, with the sense of mystery. And that is true; when I am looking her pictures I feel that there is a whole story behind the image. It is like this image is the beginning of a story and in the same time is the end to. The story it self is left to unfold in the viewers mind. And as each viewer has his own mind has his own story. It is not accidental that Leibovitz had reproduced several scenes of well-known fairytales and middle age legends. By that way she succeeds to reach and bring back some of our earlier memories, when our parents were reading to us the same fairytales and our imagination was traveling to new unexplored worlds. These is the success of Annie Leibovitz she travels us back to these forgotten worlds.
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