STYLE: Annie Leibovitz uses a variety of styles in her photography such as: black and white portraits,commercial,studio black and white portraits,group fashion portraits, her photo's don't normally involve dramatic angles she's quite simple in the way the camera is angled and set up. But she balances it with the dramatic outfit's colours and over all setting of the photo. By sometimes adding animals, brightly coloured costumes and also using photoshop to create some fairytale scenes (disney portraits).
TECHNIQUE: Annie Leibovitz uses artificial light in the majority of her photo's to let her have more control of the way the photo will turn out, and to get it just the way she had in mind. Also she take's a lot of CGI photo's such as the Disney portraits with the mermaids made to be in the sea and all blended together, also David Beckham on a horse playing the part of Prince Philip in "Sleeping Beauty", Annie Leibovitz made it look as though there was fire in the background when there really obviously wasn't.
But in Annie Leibovitz portraits she poses the model's very carefully to help portray there personality's and relationships with other's. Such as the Miley Cyrus portrait with her dad Billie Ray Cyrus, that photo really show's a lot about their relationship if looked at in depth.
NARRATIVE: Obviously in the Disney photo's Annie Leibovitz is trying to tell part of the story. So for example in the David Beckham sleeping beauty photo,he is being portrayed as a "strong knight" and she does this by using obvious positions for the models like the horse being up on two legs. And in the portraits I was talking about above,she again uses the model's posture, facial expressions and over all setting to show something about their personality and relationships with others. She like's the model's in the photo's to bring part of them into the photo's and letting them be themselves. Unless it's a commercial photograph where she has staged most of the model's herself.
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