Leni Riefenstahl was an important figure who helped shape the cinegraphic arts as we know them today and was shaped into the circumstances of her fame as well as through the conditions of her life. Well know individuals such as the prominent photographer Helmut Newton and Mick Jagger have been known to be influenced from her work (Trimborn 275). Leni was even honoured by Time magazine as the only women artist to make in onto their list of 100 most important artists of the 20th century (Trimborn 274). Although these honours were not always the case. Much controversy about her work arose when she was features at the MoMA in 1966 as certain individuals didn’t view it as …show more content…
This is relevant as Leni herself led a very controversial life before her death in 2003 at 101(Bach 297). Starting off her love of the arts to get away from her repressive father Leni