Annie Leibovitz

Synopsis

The American photographer Annie Leibovitz first attracted attention for her work while still a student in the late 1960s. Her photojournalism came to define the style of Rolling Stone magazine, the cult publication of contemporary youth-culture and protest. Throughout the 1970s, Leibovitz’s camera documentation of such signal events as the Woodstock Festival and the Vietnam protest rallies provided the classic images of a decade. This film combines an in-depth interview with a survey of Leibovitz’s career. It draws on a wide range of material, including early home movies, an extensive sequence of her most compelling images, and commentary from Mick Jagger, Rolling Stone editor Jann Wenner and others who have worked with Leibovitz. In the early 1980s she moved to Vanity Fair magazine, where her bold celebrity portraits culminated in the succès de scandale of the 1993 cover photo featuring a nude and pregnant Demi Moore. Leibovitz and her team are shown at work on a subsequent assignment with Demi Moore. These taxing photo-sessions reveal Leibovitz’s professional drive and mastery.

Series

South Bank Show, The: Series

Language

English

Year of production

1993

Notes

Broadcast in the South Bank Show series on ITV on 7/2/93.

Subjects

Art

Keywords

biographies; Leibovitz, Annie; photography

Credits

Director

Rebecca Frayn

Producer

Belinda Allen

Cast

Melvyn Bragg

Distribution Formats

Type

VHS

Format

PAL

Price

£14.95

Availability

Sale

Duration/Size

51 minutes

Year

2011

Production Company

Name

London Weekend Television

Name

Middlemarch Films

Distributor

Name

Phaidon Press

Contact

Daniel Groenewald (Head of UK Sales & Marketing)

Email

enquiries@phaidon.com

Web

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Phone

020 7843 1206

Fax

020 7843 1215

Notes

A series of 60+ films on major artists, many of which have been broadcast on the Southbank Show. Sale on video. (Some of the titles are available for sale on DVD from Illuminations.