“Life
Through a Lens”
This
film is about an Annie Leibovitz who is very famous photographer, and it
handles with her life. This movie starts
with some interviews that some celebrities did such as Hilary Clinton, Whoopi
Goldberg and so on. And this film made
by her sister Babara Leibovitz. In the
beginning the Babara Leibovitz asks her, “What is photographer’s life?” She
answers, “The life is looking through a lens.” The answer is very impressing
for me because it is very short explanation, but it represents of artists’
whole life especially photographer. In
this film, many celebrities do interview about Annie Leibovitz, including her
passion on work and her personality.
Also, her family explains about her life and background. So does Annie Leibovitz. Many photographs, that she took, and films
show up in this film by explaining about that.
Also, I could see some process how she works with people. In terms of
film’s materials, there are lots of things that she did. Firstly, she takes lots of commerce pictures,
and she has been taking pictures of various celebrities such as George Clooney, Hilary Clinton, Arnold Schwarzenegger,
Kirsten Dunst,
Mick Jagger, Demi Moore and so on. I cannot
help but mention about a magazine called Rolling Stone after I watched this
film. The Rolling Stone and she
influenced on each other. She used to
take cover pictures of the magazine for a long time. And the magazine effected on her photographs’
style. But the interesting thing is that
she insists the cover pictures are just advertisement tools not art or
photographs. That is why many celebrities regard as the best photographer of
the world. Secondly, she regards family
as a very important thing, and she has been taking pictures that are related
with family. Her family pictures are
very sentimental. She has three kids, so
that she tends to take pictures of family habitually. Also, she thinks that her camera is another
member of family. Thirdly, she takes
abstract and artistic pictures. In the
middle of the film, she interviews about her opinion that as taking dancing
pictures, she expresses her artistic moment. Also, her photographs look simple
but they suggest deeper meanings. And
she creates standard of beauty by making unique pictures such as nude picture
of pregnant, John Lennon and Yoko Ono’ pictures. Lastly, she pursues daily life’s
pictures. If we see the pictures of
Rolling Stones, we could notice that she likes daily life-style photographs. After I watched this film, I was pleased with
learning about this great photographer.
I used to be curious about who took these pictures when I saw the famous
pictures that showed up in this film.
Also, I am interested in photographs, and I want to learn about that in
the future. I respect her passion and enthusiasm
on work. From now on, maybe I will
appreciate photographs specifically.
John Lennon and Yoko Ono
Meryl Streep
Brad Pitt
Keira Knightley
Demi Moore
Sting
Whoopi Goldberg
Annie Leibovitz
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