Leibovitz, Annie (1949– )

US photographer. Her elaborately staged portraits of US celebrities appeared first in Rolling Stone magazine and later in Vanity Fair. She was chief photographer of Rolling Stone 1973–83. The odd poses in which her sitters allow themselves to be placed suggest an element of self-mockery.

Many of her photographic portraits have become iconic, for example the photograph of a nude John Lennon embracing his wife, Yoko Ono, the morning of the day he was murdered in 1981.