Annie Leibovitz (is god)

Annie Leibovitz is the most amazing photographer. She started taking black and white film pictures as a young child and moved to color film when she got to college. She attended the San Francisco Art Institute as a painting major. When she took a night photography class she realized her real passion and changed majors. As a student she began working for a San Francisco magazine about music which later become Known as The Rolling Stone.

Annie immediatly became known as a talented photographer for her raw and innovative work. She has mastered B&W film, Color Film, and digital. After over a decade of shooting artistic pictures of famous people for magazines, she ventured to Europe to take pictures of war. She was able to master the art of street photography and documentary photography during her time overseas. She witnessed a lot and sacrificed a lot for her art during that time. She now runs a successful studio in Manhatten and has a daughter. She claims that she will take pictures until the day she dies.

The reason Annie is my personal artistic hero is because she is the ultimate master of her trade. She has been succesful as creating amazing art, and selling it. She was able to master film and digital, photojournalism, street photography, and studio photography. She is a living legend who will always be idolized. She has also set the standard for photographers today, and has inspired many young artists.

I can relate to her because I too was a painter primarily, and I recently realized my love of photography. Annie Leibovitz has inspired me to use my talent to build my career. Her success is something for me to look up to and aim for. She also showed me not to be afraid to take risks with your medium. At first she was hesitant to use digital, but she worked hard at it and is now one of the best digital photographers in the world.

She is also a very intuitive person. All of her work is given a lot of thought and meaning. She wrote a memoir recently which is written beautifully and shows her intelligence. I look to Annie's carrer for guidance when I think about the direction in which to take my art.