Annie Leibovitz

By Amber Molland-Allman

 Born in Waterbury, Connecticut, on October 2, 1949,

Leibovitz is the third of six children. She is a thirdgeneration American whose great-grandparents were
Jewish immigrants from Central and Eastern Europe. Her
father's parents had emigrated from Romania.
When Leibovitz returned to the United States in 1970,
she started her career as staff photographer, working for
the just launched Rolling Stone magazine.
She also worked with John Lennon, Joan Armatrading,
The Rolling Stones and many more.

Linda McCartney

Linda Louise McCartney, the second-eldest of four children, was born Linda Louise
Eastman in New York City. She had one older brother, John (July 10, 1939), and two
younger sisters, Laura (born 1947), and Louise Jr. McCartney's mother, Louise Sara
(Lindner) Eastman, was from a German Jewish family.

McCartney started work as a receptionist for Town & Country magazine, and was the
only unofficial photographer on board the SS Sea Panther yacht on the Hudson River
who was allowed to take photographs of The Rolling Stones during a record
promotion party.

She photographed Clapton for Rolling Stone magazine, becoming the first woman to
have a photograph featured on the front cover (May 11, 1968). She and husband
Paul also appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone on January 31, 1974, making her
the only person to have taken a photograph, and to have been photographed, for the
front cover of the magazine. Her photographs were later exhibited in more than 50
galleries internationally, as well as at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. A
collection of photographs from that time, Linda McCartney's Sixties: Portrait of an
Era, was published in 1993. She also took the photograph for the cover of Paul
McCartney's and Michael Jackson's single, "The Girl Is Mine".

Duane Michals

 Michals's interest in art "began at age 14 while attending watercolor

university classes at the Carnegie Institute [Carnegie Museum of
Art] in Pittsburgh. In 1953 he received a B.A. from the University of
Denver. After two years in the Army, in 1956 he went on to study at
the Parsons School of Design with a plan to become a graphic
designer; however, he did not complete his studies.

He describes his photographic skills as "completely self-taught."In

1958 while on a holiday in the USSR he discovered an interest in
photography.
For a number of years, Michals was a commercial photographer,
working for Esquire and Mademoiselle, and he covered the filming of
The Great Gatsby for Vogue (1974).

In 1976 Michals received a grant from the National Endowment for

the Arts. Michals also produced the art for the album Synchronicity
(by The Police) in 1983,and Richard Barone's Clouds Over Eden
album in 1993.