Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens

In the film, Leibovitz displays a limitless capacity to stretch herself artistically through constant reinvention. Her iconic photographs of celebrity faces and bodies - painted, nude, covered in mud and even white-face - are stories in themselves, revelations of the cultural zeitgeist. Most are instantly recognizable: a shirtless Arnold Schwarzenegger atop a white stallion, Pete Townshend and his bloody hand, sweat-soaked Rolling Stones, Whoopi Goldberg in a tub of milk, a naked John Lennon with a fully-clothed Yoko. The last Lennon photo was taken hours before the musician – the subject of one of Leibovitz‘ early Rolling Stone covers - was shot and killed outside his home in New York City. In the film, Ono says, "She was one of us. She captured the spirit of us." PBS Previews 2007