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Annie is an American portrait photographer from Waterbury, Connecticut. She is best known for her capability of working with celebrities and capturing intimate settings and poses.

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Annie Leibovitz trained at the San Francisco Art Institute. At first she studied painting, but later developed her photography skills which led to changing her major. She was inspired by the work of Robert Frank and Henri Cartier-Bresson. For several years, she continued to develop her photography skills while holding various jobs, including a stint on a kibbutz in Amir, Israel for several months in 1969.

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When Annie returned to the United States in 1970, she started her career as staff photographer for Rolling Stone magazine. In 1973, publisher Jann Wenner named Leibovitz chief photographer of Rolling Stone, a job she would hold for 10 years. Leibovitz worked for the magazine until 1983, and her intimate photographs of celebrities helped define the Rolling Stone look. Annie photographed The Rolling Stones in San Francisco in 1971 and 1972, and served as the concert-tour photographer for The Rolling Stones' Tour of the Americas '75. Her favorite photo from the tour was a photo of Mick Jagger in an elevator.

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On December 8, 1980, Annie had a photo shoot with John Lennon  for Rolling Stone, and she promised him he would make the cover. She had initially tried to get a picture with just Lennon alone, as Rolling Stone wanted, but Lennon insisted that both he and Yoko Ono be on the cover. Annie then tried to re-create something like the kissing scene from the couple's Double Fantasy album cover, a picture Leibovitz loved. She had John remove his clothes and curl up next to Yoko on the floor. The photo was actually shot 5 hours before John Lennon was shot and killed.

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Annie then later developed new skills for her style of photography. Her new style of lighting and use of bold colors and poses got her a position with Vanity Fair magazine in 1983. Annie photographed celebrities for an international advertising campaign for American Express charge cards, which won a Clio award in 1987. In 1991, Leibovitz mounted an exhibition at the National Portrait Portrait Gallery. She was the second living portraitist and first woman to show there.

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In 1991, Annie made an image that celebrated pregnancy as much as it titillated, showing how maternity could be not only empowering but also sexy. The magazine’s editor, Tina Brown, deemed Moore’s act a brave declaration, “a new young movie star willing to say, ‘I look beautiful pregnant,’ and not ashamed of it.”

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In 1998, Annie began to work regularly for Vogue. This picture ^ was taken in 1999. Annie left the publication and began working at Vanity Fair where she developed her style of staged and brightly lit portraits, and today, still regularly contributes to the magazine, as well as to Vogue. She has cited both Richard Avedon and Henri-Cartier as influences to her work, as well as taking photos during her family vacations as a child.