Annie Leibovitz's Portraits

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In most cases people would assume that a portrait is nothing more than a face. However, Annie Leibovitz often includes more information in the photograph. Some of her portraits give insights into the celebrity’s life while others do not. The formal and posed, portraits often remind us of a person’s well-known character, while the informal portraits rely on other information like environments in order to portray the person’s personality or lifestyle. In the same aspect, some of the portraits also reveal a great deal of information about popular culture of the United States and less about the subject in the photo, while some reveal more about the subject and less about popular culture. Other than that, Annie Leibovitz did not admit that she is

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