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John Lennon and Yoko Ono
Annie Leibovitz
- © Annie Leibovitz/ Contact Press Images, courtesy of the Artist
Annie Leibovitz
John Lennon and Yoko Ono1980In this comparatively simple portrait, Leibovitz relies on intimacy for effect. Her aim was to immortalise John and Yoko's deep love for one another. But within hours of taking this photograph John Lennon was shot dead. Distributed around the world as a 'Rolling Stone' magazine cover, the photograph was instantly transformed. It became a memorial to Lennon and a symbol of the vulnerability of human passion.
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- Accession no. PGP 158.5
- Medium Colour photograph
- Size 30.50 x 31.00 cm
- Credit Presented by the photographer 1996
Annie Leibovitz (American, born 1949)
In 1970 a young student at the San Francisco Art Institute submitted a portfolio of photographs to the fledgling 'Rolling Stone' magazine. Within a month she was shooting its covers and three years later - aged twenty-three - was appointed its chief photographer. Annie Leibovitz was well on her way to becoming the twentieth-century's best-known photographer of celebrities, abetting the aims of America's voracious publicity machine. Massive production budgets help project a fantastic arena utterly divorced from the lives of those who consume her imagery. Her detractors accuse her of superficiality but her supporters admire the way in which she exploits the potential of surface in photographic portraiture.