I'd love to better understand what story Leibovitz is telling here. On appeal, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed. At trial, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York found that Paramount's use of the photo constituted fair use because parodies were likely to generate little or no licensing revenue. Paramount Pictures Corp., has become an important fair use case in U.S. Leibovitz sued Paramount Pictures for copyright infringement of her Vanity Fair cover photograph of a pregnant Demi Moore from a 1991 issue titled 'More Demi Moore.' Paramount had commissioned a parody photograph of Leslie Nielsen, pregnant, for use in a promotional poster for the 1994 comedy Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult. Since 1983, Leibovitz has worked as a featured portrait photographer for Vanity Fair. In 1975, Leibovitz served as a concert-tour photographer for The Rolling Stones' Tour of the Americas. Leibovitz worked for the magazine until 1983, and her intimate photographs of celebrities helped define the Rolling Stone look. In 1973, publisher Jann Wenner named Leibovitz chief photographer of Rolling Stone.

When Leibovitz returned to America in 1970, she worked for the recently launched Rolling Stone magazine. For several years, she continued to develop her photography skills while she worked various jobs, including a stint on a kibbutz Amir in Israel for several months in 1969. She became interested in photography after taking pictures when she lived in the Philippines, where her Air Force father was stationed during the Vietnam War.

She attended the San Francisco Art Institute. In high school, she became interested in various artistic endeavours, and began to write and play music. The family moved frequently with her father's duty assignments, and she took her first pictures when he was stationed in the Philippines.

Her mother was a modern dance instructor, while her father was a lieutenant colonel in the United States Air Force. Anna-Lou 'Annie' Leibovitz is an American portrait photographer whose style is marked by a close collaboration between the photographer and the subject.īorn in Waterbury, Connecticut, Leibovitz is the third of six children in a Jewish family.

Dancers by Annie Leibovitz