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Annie Leibovitz: "Journalism is never far from me"

2021-12-08T18:23:57.656Z


INTERVIEW - The great “Rolling Stone” photographer has become the queen of “made in America” glamor. Meeting in Paris, where she has just received the prize from the William Klein Academy of Fine Arts.


Tall, gangly, almost disjointed, Annie Leibovitz, 72, has this direct side which may surprise.

His first question is to inquire about you, France in the face of Covid, your experience with containment and resilience.

Dressed all in black, between the photojournalist and the studio pro, she has the ability to establish immediate intimacy, the fruit or the key to a long career as a portrait painter.

This instinct, which made him follow, at a young age, the historic tour of the Rolling Stones' Tour of the Americas in 1975 for

Rolling Stone

magazine

,

is his signature.

He makes his bold and virtuoso images recognizable.

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The photographer Annie Leibovitz consecrated by the Academy of Fine Arts

A mixture of precision, glamor and humor, it has won him numerous awards.

The latest, awarded on October 27, is the Academy of Fine Arts-William-Klein Photography Prize, created in 2019 by the Academy of Fine Arts, with the support of the Chengdu Contemporary Image Museum, in tribute to the great William Klein, 93 years old.

Sebastião Salgado,

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Source: lefigaro

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