It was only during a trip to Japan with her mother after her second year studying painting at the San Francisco Art Institute that Annie Leibovitz discovered her interest in photography. In 1970, Leibovitz approached the founding editor of Rolling Stone, Jann Wenner, who was impressed by Leibovitz's work. Wenner's first assignment to Leibovitz was to shoot John Lennon. Leibovitz's black and white portrait of Lennon was on the cover of the January 21, 1971 issue. Ironically, Leibovitz would be the last person to capture his first celebrity subject. Two years later, she made history by becoming Rolling Stone's first female chief photographer. Leibovitz's intimate celebrity photographs played an important role in defining the Rolling Stone look. In 1983, Leibovitz joined Vanity Fair and became the magazine's first contributing photographer. At Vanity Fair, she became known for her intensely lit, staged and seductive celebrity portraits. With a wider range of subjects available at Vanity Fair, Leibovitz's photographs for Vanity Fair ranged from presidents to literary icons to...