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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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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