Annie Leibovitz speaks about her gallery exhibition, Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer's Life, 1990-2005, at the Corcoran Museum of Art in Washington on Oct. 9, 2007. (AP)
Originally broadcast: Oct. 17, 2006
You don’t get higher-profile than the celebrity portraits of photographer Annie Liebovitz.
From the covers of Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair to the Hollywood heights, she has famously photographed Demi Moore nude and very pregnant; John Lennon curled around Yoko Ono; Michael Jordan looking godlike.
Her new book on how she’s done it is “Annie Leibovitz At Work.” I talked with her about her last collection, and the life and death of her longtime companion Susan Sontag.
This hour, in a holiday archive edition of On Point: photographer Annie Leibovitz.
-Tom Ashbrook
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Guest:
Annie Leibovitz, contributor to Vogue and Vanity Fair magazines, formerly Rolling Stone’s chief photographer. Her books include “Women” and “American Music.” Her most recent collection is “Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer’s Life 1990-2005.”
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