It wasn't until 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 went to Rolling Stone's founding editor, Jann Wenner, who was impressed with Leibovitz's work. Leibovitz's first assignment from Wenner was to shoot John Lennon. Leibovitz's black-and-white portrait of Lennon was 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 being named the first female chief photographer by Rolling Stone. 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. A Vanity Fair has become known for her intensely lit, staged, and seductive portraits of celebrities. With a wider range of subjects available in Vanity Fair, Leibovitz's photographs for Vanity Fair ranged from presidents to literary icons to...