It was an honor to travel to Ukraine with @annieleibovitz for these historic portraits of President @zelenskiy_official and First Lady @olenazelenska_official 🇺🇦
Bravo @voguemagazine for using their global platform to keep Ukraine at the forefront of the world’s attention 🇺🇦💙💛 #slavaukraine
“Just try to imagine what I’m talking about happening to your home, to your country. . . . We are fighting for things that could happen in any country in the world. . . . If the world allows this to happen, then it is not upholding its values. That’s why Ukraine needs support—significant support.” — President Zelenskyy, speaking with Vogue writer Rachel Donadio, July 2022
#annieleibovitz#standwithukraine
Eve’s work is currently featured in an exhibition - “Being Human: great photographers tell the world”,
Musei San Dominico, Forli, Italy. September 30th 2021 - January 30th 2022. @terradelbuonvivere
“Among the 314 photographs on display, we can point out the legendary images of Lee Miller in Hitler's bathtub, the amazing series of masks by Inge Morath, made with Saul Steinberg, the iconic faces of peasants during the Great Depression by Dorothea Lange, the surprising shoot by Eve Arnold on a fashion show in Harlem in the 1950s and the revolutionary shots by Annie Leibovitz (@annieleibovitz) for an epochal edition of the Pirelli Calendar.”
- From exhibition website
Photos:
1. Fashion in Harlem. Two young black models check their make-up backstage at the Abyssinian Church. Harlem, New York. 1950. Ⓒ Eve Arnold / @magnumphotos
2. Exhibition posters outside the museum:
a) By Dorothea Lange: Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children. Age thirty-two. Nipomo, California. 1936.
b) By Eve Arnold: (same as caption 1.)
3. By Eve Arnold (inside the exhibition):
a) Fashion in Harlem. Model Charlotte Stribling aka 'Fabulous' waits backstage for the entrance cue to model clothes designed and made in the Harlem community. The venue is the Abyssinian Church, Harlem, New York. 1950.
b) Two young black models check their make-up backstage at the Abyssinian Church. Harlem, New York. 1950.
c) Charlotte Stribling aka 'Fabulous' foes stretching exercises between modelling appearances at the Abyssinian Church. 1950.
d) Harlem. Hair and beauty classes for young black women. Harlem, New York. 1950.
4. By Eve Arnold (inside the exhibition):
a) Behind the scenes. Fashion show, Abyssinian Baptist Church. Harlem, New York. 1950.
b) Two young black models check their make-up backstage. Harlem, New York. 1950.
c) Half in and half out of a dress she made herself, this model has just finished showing it off and is preparing to go home.1950.
d) Hair and wig consultant discusses coiffure problems with a mother and daughter at the Rose Meta hair and beauty salon. 1950.
#evearnold#dorothealange#ingemorath#annieleibovitz#essereumane#harlemfashion
Happy International Women’s Day! Today we’re taking a brief trip back in time to 2016, when GAS provided kit to Annie Leibovitz’s exhibition “WOMEN: New Portraits”
When Leibovitz began the project in 1990, she worked hard to find women in important positions, and photographed them in her trademark style. In 2014 when the project was revived, she said it “focus[ed] more heavily on what these women do rather than how they look”.
In 2015 Leibovitz photographed Misty Copeland who was the first black prima ballerina in the history of the American Ballet Theatre.
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#internationalwomansday#annieleibovitz#portrait#londonportrait#galleryshow#leibovitz#cindysherman#sherman#mistycopeland#ballet#balletdancer
In honour of International Women’s Day, GAS Is taking a look at acclaimed photojournalist, portrait, and fashion photographer Annie Leibovitz and her exhibition “WOMEN: New Portraits”.
Born in Connecticut in 1949, she traveled constantly throughout her childhood with her military family, finally ending up in San Francisco to attend art school. After a period of traveling, she ended up back in the US and began working at the then nearly brand new Rolling Stone magazine, where she quickly became chief photographer. Leibovitz’s eventually left Rolling Stone in 1983 and began working for a variety of magazines and brands - and continues to work today.
In 2016 she mounted an exhibition she began working on with her partner Susan Sontag before her passing, moving it across the world over a year long period. The exhibition began in London, where GAS was honoured to provide production and electrical kit to the show!
Seen here is Leibovitz’s portrait of equally acclaimed photographer Cindy Sherman.
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#internationalwomansday#annieleibovitz#portrait#londonportrait#galleryshow#leibovitz#cindysherman#sherman