If everyone has not seen this dvd yet, you must rent it and watch it. netflix baby.
I watched this "lecture", ok really it is a documentary, but anyways i watched this DVD called Life through a lens. It is able the famously accomplished photographer Annie Leibovitz. It was published in 2008 and follows Annie through some of her shoots of Kirsten Dunst for her movie and it shows Annie as they are compiling picture for a book.
Narrator: "What is a photographer's life?"
Annie : "Well, . . .It is a life living through a lens."
Annie's life was truly dedicated to photography. As a child she described moving around with her family often and seeing life through a frame ( the car window) . She started with art classes and she went on to work for Rolling Stone magazine for some time. She followed musicians and rock bands on tour becoming apart of their environment and photographing them. Annie really is one of those people who see in compositions naturally. Shooting seems to come so easily for her. She was very active and motivated and made a BIG name for herself photographing for this magazine. But she also fell into addiction of drugs after traveling with the rock bands.
She went to rehab and moved to vanity fair magazine. Her life was her work and the work she does is so amazing. Her shoots for vanity fair are wildly expensive, lavish and totally worth every penny because her shots are perfect. Annie shows photographers that with passion and a lifetime of work you can create a world for yourself.
In this documentary you get to see how she interacts with people, she is incredible engaging and is able to show the subjects vulnerability in her photographs. She is amazing a true inspiration!
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