Portrait Photography

The name of this work is Mike Cloud.  The artist of this piece is Annie Liebovitz.  The medium this artist used is portrait photography.  Portrait photography is the expression or personality of a person or persons the artist chooses to display through photography. Liebovitz was a photographer for Rolling Stone in 1970.  Sayre states the artist had the ability to “capture something of the spirit of celebrity – tension between the public face of stardom and the private person behind the mask.”  The artist was a feminist and loved to shock people with her photos. She was known for her brilliant and luminous use of color, as well content by shocking people with female sexuality.