- Born
- Birth nameAnna-Lou Leibovitz
- Annie Leibovitz was born on October 2, 1949 in Waterbury, Connecticut, USA. She is a director, known for Great Performances (1971), Aria (1987) and Vanity Fair: Killers Kill, Dead Men Die (2007).
- She was the last person to professionally photograph John Lennon alive (early on the day he was assassinated). However, the very last person to photograph Lennon, shortly before he was fatally shot, was amateur photographer Paul Goresh.
- She was the first female, chief photographer for Jann Wenner's "Rolling Stone Magazine," a post she held from 1973 to 1983. However, she was not first female to photograph a cover for the magazine. That distinction belongs to Linda McCartney with her blue solarized portrait of Eric Clapton captured for the cover of the May 11, 1968 issue.
- Has three children: daughter Sarah Cameron, born in October 2001, when Annie was 52 years old, and her twins Susan and Samuelle, born to a surrogate mother in May 2005.
- Her father was a United States Air Force lieutenant colonel, her mother worked as a modern dance instructor.
- Longtime companion of essayist Susan Sontag from the mid 1980s until Sontag's death.
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