I’m not certain why I hadn’t seen it before, but I watched Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens on Ovation TV this weekend and it’s easily the best documentary about a photographer that I’ve seen. Whether you love her or loathe her (and there is rarely a middle ground when it comes to Annie) this documentary will definitely help you understand her.
Spanning five decades this documentary is a wonderful look at the evolution and career arc of an artist from her early reportage to her current mega-productions it’s loaded with insight not only into her success but also what makes her tick. Getting a backstage look at a photo shoot is always fun and with productions as large as these, it’s all the more interesting. Yet perhaps the most interesting thing is the opportunity to hear Annie, her subjects and her editors voice their thoughts about her greatest hits. It’s definitely worth a watch, so if you missed it of you just want to watch it again and again, order from Amazon.
A HUGE ART & SOUL THANKS to Liz Kelly for this wonderful interviews at the ART & SOUL Los Angeles Book Launch at the Sony Store at Century City. Nice Interviews with actors Tim Daly, Nia Vardolis, Richard Schiff, TCC’s Robin Bronk and me. Huge thanks to Schiff for the nice mention of my wife Fazia.
Herman Leonard, the Greatest Jazz Photographer who ever lived, is getting the New Orleans send-off Celebration he so richly deserves this Saturday, November 6th. The celebration of his life begins with a Memorial Service at 1pm followed by a Second Line Service by members of Sudan Social Aid & Pleasure Club and the Pussyfooters through the French Quarter. Please join Herman Leonard family in honoring a man who was the best at what he did and who I proudly called my friend…
On her last visit to Florida, my friend, fine art photographer Linda Troeller stopped by our house with the husband Lothar. I’d promised Linda that I would shoot a portrait of her for her new book. Somehow, by the end of the night, Lothar was looking quite Grace Jones…
Smith is a Sony Artisan of Imagery and a X-Rite Coloratti and has appeared on Fine Living Channel teaching a Little League Mom how to become a Big League Sports Photographer. His photography career began as a high school swimmer clearly not destined for the Olympics in the pool, yet this provided him with the opportunity to photograph swimming and other sports as a stringer for the Ames Daily Tribune.
Smith is President of Editorial Photographers, an organization of 2,000 of the top magazine photographers and newspaper photojournalists from around the world. He is frequently a speaker at photography seminars and to photo students at colleges, universities and art institutes around the country and can often be found on a flight headed to the Caribbean, Latin America or the American South from his home in Miami Beach, Florida.
Spanning five decades this documentary is a wonderful look at the evolution and career arc of an artist from her early reportage to her current mega-productions it’s loaded with insight not only into her success but also what makes her tick. Getting a backstage look at a photo shoot is always fun and with productions as large as these, it’s all the more interesting. Yet perhaps the most interesting thing is the opportunity to hear Annie, her subjects and her editors voice their thoughts about her greatest hits. It’s definitely worth a watch, so if you missed it of you just want to watch it again and again, order from Amazon.
