![]() We are treated to vintage films of Leibovitz in action in the 1960s and '70s, and of the Rolling Stone staff in its San Francisco offices, long ago. She draws no distinction between the pictures she is paid to take and those she takes of her loved ones. More, in that it follows Leibovitz's life, from a peripatetic childhood (her father was an Air Force officer, so the family moved a lot) to her blossoming interest in photography, to her work with magazines (there's a detour into a drug problem), to renown, and finally to motherhood and the death of her lover, intellectual Susan Sontag, and of her father. Like Hillary Rodham Clinton: Leibovitz "has really been a major chronicler of our country, what we care about, what we think about," says the former first lady, current senator and probable future candidate for president. ![]() There's Whoopi Goldberg and Arnold Schwarzenegger and Mick Jagger and Mikhail Baryshnikov and some extra-special surprise celebrities. More, in that the 90-minute documentary offers many, many celebrities who are happy to heap accolades on Leibovitz. It's all there to see in the PBS "American Masters" presentation, "Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens," airing at 9 p.m., Wednesday. ![]() The tall, bespectacled photographer, clicking away, wooing her subjects with patter: "Beautiful". For decades, Rolling Stone and then Vanity Fair have offered amazing pictures of the famed and fabulous - Annie Leibovitz's photographic map of the stars.Įver wonder what was on the other side of the lens? ![]()
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