Annie Leibovitz Research Paper

The stock market crash made her studio photography irrelevant since majority of the population could not afford to have their pictures taken. During this period, she became aware of all the unemployed people around her. It was during the Great Depression where her greatest pieces of works were developed. During the first years of the Depression, fourteen million people were jobless. There was a rich woman known as the

Georgia O’Keeffe was born to the parents of Francis Calyxtus O’Keeffe and Ida (Totto) O’Keeffe on November 15, 1887 near Wisconsin. Georgia was the second oldest child and by the age of ten she knew she wanted to become an artist someday. Her first aspiration was doing abstracts. She was selective about what she painted, but often times she would paint to please others and not herself. Her paintings were thought of as sexual paintings because of the way they were drawn and painted in which she would say is one’s own opinion. Georgia O’Keeffe was best known for her flower canvas and southwestern landscapes. Her husband who is a famous photographer by the name of Alfred Stieglitz used to paint nice portraits of her. She was very fond of him, they both liked what each other did as far as how they were making ends meet, and he just didn’t want her to sell any of her paintings. He would often times tell people “No” so they wouldn’t buy any of her paintings because he wanted them all to himself. She had an interest in nature and used bright colors in her paintings.

Annie Easley was born on April 23,1933, In Birmingham Alabama. Easley and her brother were raised by thaier single mother Mary Melvin Hoover. Her mother was one of her greatest inspirations and her role model, she always encouraged her to get a good education. In an oral history interview with NASA, she said that her mother always used to tell her "You can be anything you want to. It doesn't matter what you look like, what your size is, what your color is. You can be anything you want to, but you do have to work at it." Annie Easley attended school in Birmingham and graduated as the valedictorian of her grade. At that time Easly Wanted to become a nurse because she thought it was one of the only careers open to black women. However, later on

Singer. Born April 25, 1917, in Newport News, Virginia. (Though many biographical sources give her birth date as 1918, her birth certificate and school records show her to have been born a year earlier.) Often referred to as the "first lady of song," Fitzgerald enjoyed a career that stretched over six decades. With her lucid intonation and a range of three octaves, she became the preeminent jazz singer of her generation, recording over 2,000 songs, selling over 40 million albums, and winning 13 Grammy Awards, including one in 1967 for Lifetime Achievement.

Edith Stein was a Jewish born child looking to leave her mark on the world. In her own words Edith stated, “I always foresaw a brilliant future for myself” (Payne). Edith was very family reliant and she suffered through many hard times. Whenever thoughts of giving up on life in Breslau, Germany arose she always found a way, a reason to push through. Edith, through all the hardships, had evolved into a strong woman dedicated to moving on. Her story is one that will touch the lives of many!

The Harlem Renaissance was an artistic, social, and cultural explosion during the 1920s in Harlem, York. This flourishing of African-American culture was an accomplishment in itself, given the times. The early 1900s was a difficult time for African-American people, and a difficult time for women, so one can imagine the difficulties that a woman of color would have endured. Ella Fitzgerald defied those odds, transformed the face of the jazz world, and paved a way for other African-American women to achieve stardom.

Nina Simone was one of the most unique, influential, and gifted singers of her generation. She was born on February 21, 1933 as Eunice Waymon, in Tryon, North Carolina. Her mother was a preacher and she started playing piano at an early age, around 3 or 4 at her mother’s church, as she was playing piano at a local recital she caught the eye of an older white woman willing to give her lessons. Nina went on to studying classical piano for 5 years with the woman, learning the stylings of the classical greats such as Bach, Beethoven, Debussy, and Brahms. As a child she felt so isolated, spending up to 7 hours a day practicing the piano, and growing up in the south in the segregation era, she felt as she could not fit in neither with the white or black community, even when surrounded by other children all they wanted to

Charles Lindbergh was born on February 4, 1902, in Detroit, Michigan. He grew up on a farm near Little Falls, Minnesota. He was the son of a lawyer/U.S. Congressman named (Charles August Lindbergh). He spent a great amount of time alone while he was young. Charles Lindbergh also spent time with animals and machines to keep him company when he was young. He attended schools in Little Falls, Minnesota, and Washington, D.C. Charles then attended the University of Wisconsin for a mechanical engineering program.After studying at the University of Wisconsin he became bored; he became interested in cars and motorcycles at this time.

Annie Oakley (born as Phoebe Ann Moses) was born on August 13, 1860 in Ohio. When Annie was at a very young age her father and step-father both had passed away. Later, she went to live at the Darke County Infirmary. At the Infirmary, Annie learned how to read, write, and sew while helping to take care of some of the other orphaned children. In her early teens Annie returned home to her mother and her mother’s new husband. Annie had to help hunt food for a grocery store and with the hunting came great skills so by the time Annie was 15 she was able to pay off her mother’s mortgage on the house. Then, Annie was at a Thanksgiving shooting competition in 1875 when she beat her future husband in the competition. The next year, Annie then married

After she graduated, she moved to Chicago where she attended the Art Institute of Chicago from 1905 to 1906. A year later, she traveled to New York to continue her art studies and took classes at the Art Students League where she learned the ideas of a realist painter. Not only did she study in the classroom on art, she ventured out into art galleries as well. Another year later, she returned home to take care of her sick mother but that did not stop her from studying art. In 1912, she took art classes during the summer at the University of Virginia where she was influenced by Japanese art (“Georgia O 'Keeffe”).

Although he is a Nazi, Oskar Schindler stood up against the Nazis because he was swayed by the brutality of the Nazis on Jews (although it is actually unknown why he really did it) and saved around 1,200 Jews from death from Nazi concentration camps by bribing Nazi officers to free Jews, employing Jews in his factories, and spending all of his money on anything that ensures his Jewish workers are fed and cared properly.

Oskar Schindler is a hero for saving over one thousand Jews, he used his position and money to save the Jews. Nobody really knows why he saved the Jews but they are happy that he did. We can’t imagine what all the Jews went through.

Greg Caplan, the writer of “Jewish Women in America: A Historical Encyclopedia,” explains that the constant travelling helped Leibovitz develop a better relationship with her five siblings and parents, as well as helped her become familiar with various lifestyles. From an early age she became well traveled, which may have contributed to her success in working with other people in her photography career. Although Leibovitz originally intended to study art, she became enamored with photography, and chose to pursue a career in it. In 1971, she landed a job at Rolling Stone magazine and became their chief photographer within two years. During this portion of her career, she shot many famous portraits that appeared on the cover of the magazine and helped her gain fame.

The Holocaust was a dark time in the world for the many millions of Jews who were suffering in anguish. However, through this dark time, one man by the name of Oskar Schindler was able to be a light unto those who needed his aid. Born in 1908 in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Schindler lived to be 66 years old before his death in October of 1974 ("Oskar Schindler Biography"). During this time, he provided safe and humane jobs for over 1200 Jews during the Holocaust, saving both their and their future descendants lives. He not only rescued them from their death sentence, but treated them as what they actually were… human beings.

The Mother of American Modernism, Georgia O’Keeffe, moved to Manhattan to be with a sophisticated older man, who was two decades her senior. His name was Alfred Stieglitz, an influential art dealer, modern photographer, and curated of the first modern art gallery in USA. They lived together in upstate New York, and eventually married. Georgia was captivated by the dramatic heights of buildings. She painted scenery and was mesmerized by the shadows and geometric shapes the city had to offer.