The Photographer's Interview

1) What is the name of the Photographer? Annie Leibovitz


2) How long has he/she been taking photographs? Since the beginning of college where she took a photography night class.


3) What is the genre in which the Photographer works? (If multiple, list all) Portrait Photographer


4) How did the Photographer get his/her start? Began her career at Rolling Stones while still in college during the early 1970s.


5) What is it about Photography that the Photographer finds inspiring? It's concrete and could have immediate satisfaction. She says that having a camera is like having a friend and going out and taking pictures is like being on a mission.


6) Does the Photographer have a social or political viewpoint they are trying to convey? Identify. She is talking about a project that she is doing on American women and how it meant so much to the people involved in it and that she didn't want to fail women.


7) Does the Photographer discuss successes or failures? Identify. N/A


8) What Artists/Photographers does the Photographer admire/emulate? Jill Perez, Matisse


9) Does the Photographer discuss any historical aspects of Photography? Identify. N/A


10) Does the Photographer make any distinctions between Photography and other forms of visual art? She talks about how when she was in college as a painting major and that at the time everyone was painting abstract and how as a young person, you're not ready for abstract. She talked about how because of that she liked photograph so much better because it was so much more concrete and satisfactory.


11) What motivates the Photographer to keep taking photos? The immediate satisfaction from taking a picture


12) What is it about the Photographer's work that YOU find compelling? I really like how she went around the US to photograph women of America and just all the different views on women she got and all the different types of women she photographed is what I find compelling about her work.