Top Photographers In the History of Portrait Photography

JulieAnn Moore as the Little Mermaid

by: Annie Leibovitz

Marilyn Monroe by Richard Avedon

This post is inspired by our newest Photography task which is to take portraits.

1. Annie Leibovitz

Leibovitz, one of the greatest photographers of all time, is known for her pictures of celebrities such as Michael Jackson. She is also best known at for her controversial Rolling Stone Magazine cover with John Lennon, where he is naked and she is dressed. In the cover, he gets too close to her since they are in LOVE. Leibovitz is also best known for her marketing images to took for Disney's Year of a Million Dreams Campaign.

2. Richard Avedon

Avedon, one of those photographers, who is widely known for his portrait photography of fashion. He took numerous pictures of fashion and celebrities.b

3. Dorothea Lange

Lange, best known for her works of photography that she took during the great depression

4. Cindy Sherman

Sherman, best known for her works of portrait photography titled "Untitled Film Stills." Despite of failing her first photography class in college, Sherman worked her to become one of the most unique portrait photographers of the world . I am not encouraging you to fail photo at Chaparral.