Good morning friends, welcome back to our column "Horizon", I am Hoyi~
As the saying goes, "photography is poor for three generations", although there are many people who play photography now, few people will really take photography as their profession.
The reason is that many people think that photography cannot make money, and the average photographer's daily remuneration is about a few hundred or several thousand yuan.
When some people play photography but can't support themselves, some people get paid 100,000-250,000 US dollars in a day by photography.
The photographer who earns a room in a day is the famous One – Annie Leibovitz.
<h1>Young to fame</h1>
Anne Leibowitz was born in the United States in 1949 and later studied painting at the San Francisco Art Institute. In 1969, at the age of 20, Anne interviewed Rolling Stone magazine and began publishing photographs.
During this period, Anne photographed such well-known characters as John Lennon and Yoko Ono. In 1973, at the age of 23, Anne became the chief cinematographer of Rolling Stone, which can be described as a young success.
In 1980, Anne took a photo of Lennon preparing for a comeback (Note: The Beatles disbanded in 1970).
Anne's original idea was for Lennon and Yoko Ono to curl up naked on the bed and kiss. Lennon agreed, but Yoko said she only agreed to take off her blouse.
So Anne simply let Yoko dress tightly, while Lennon still appeared naked. Finally, we saw this thought-provoking photo full of contrasts:
The contrast between black and white, the contrast between indifference and affection, the contrast between nudity and wrapping, the contrast between curling up and stretching.
Five hours after the photo shoot, news of Lennon's assassination arrived. This last photograph of Lennon eventually became the cover of the 1981 rolling Stone commemorative issue.
At the same time, this photo also made Anne famous, laying a position that she could not shake in the photography world in the future.
<h1>Celebrity shoots</h1>
In 1983, Leibowitz left Rolling Stone to become vanity fair chief cinematographer, leading the shot for more celebrities. During this period, Anne's most bold and avant-garde work was born in 1991.
Anne took a nude maternity photo for the famous actress Demi Moore (starring in "The Ghost of Man"). In the photo, Demi Moore covers her chest with her left hand and holds her belly in her right hand, looking firmly into the distance.
Nude pregnancy photos are not new today, but they were shocking at the time.
The photograph was denounced as soon as it was published, with many believing it to be too large, many newsstands even wanted to wrap it in white paper like pornographic magazines, and some supermarket chains refused to sell it.
At the same time, the photo also sparked a protracted discussion about women. At the same time, Anne also raised the sales of Vanity Fair magazine from 800,000 copies to 10 million copies with this photo, setting a record high.
The following year, Anne took a very creative photograph of Ubi Goldberg. Anne let Uby soak in the bathtub filled with milk, and her chocolate-like skin and milky white milk blended together, and the picture was very simple and beautiful.
At that time, Ubi Goldberg was still a newcomer to Hollywood, full of childishness and innocence. Soaked in milk, she stuck out her tongue and laughed, and the whole picture was surprising and funny.
From the late 1990s onwards, Anne's filming developed a mature story-based image model:
Just like shooting a movie, before shooting a photo, Anne will set up a detailed frame for different characters in advance, and then deploy the elements needed for shooting one by one, and finally pre-shoot according to the plot clues.
Anne is already familiar with this kind of shooting task, bringing many wonderful Hollywood star-like story images to Vanity Fair.
▲ Michael Jackson
▲ Leonardo DiCaprio
▲ Angelina Jolie
▲ Jeon Ji-hyun & Lee Bing-bing
Slowly, Anne's filming field became more extensive, and she had the opportunity to cooperate with more famous actors, athletes, politicians, etc. in the world.
These celebrities influence the times in their own different ways, and Anne reflects the times in which she lives through the lens of them.
▲ Obama
▲ Hillary
<h1>The world's most expensive photographer</h1>
In 2007, Anne welcomed the "heavyweight" of her career, Queen Elizabeth II.
Paid $100,000 a day to shoot an official portrait of the Queen, Anne is the only photographer in the United States to receive the award to date.
On the day of the shooting, when the Queen was dressed up, Anne suggested that the Queen would take off the crown to shoot better.
For this abrupt proposal, the irritable queen, although reluctant, did so. Later, when the Queen saw this set of perfect portraits with a texture like oil paintings, she was very satisfied.
Anne was thus called "the photographer who let the Queen take off the crown".
Anne can become a world-class master of photography, talent and opportunity are indispensable. However, in addition to talent, it also contains step-by-step accumulation and effort.
Taking a photo, for example, seems to outsiders to be a matter of minutes, but for Anne it is not.
"In order to get what might be the best photo of the object, I had to be there. It has to be all around me, and the best photography is what's around you. You become a part of it. ”
If necessary, Anne would even live with the subject until they got used to ignoring the camera. All this is only to restore a more natural and profound character.
▲ Kate Blanchett
Behind the success, there are often countless accumulations and efforts.
When we envy others, we in turn think about whether we have worked hard enough.
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