Annie Liebovitz Calls The iPhone ‘The Snapshot Camera Of Today’
Annie Liebovitz is one of my all time favorite photographers, I totally love her work. She has had an incredible career commencing with photographing The Rolling Stones in San Francisco in 1971 and 1972 and served as the concert-tour photographer for Rolling Stones Tour of the Americas ’75 and from there to the Chief Photographer of Rolling Stone magazine in the early ’70’s.
What’s most interesting about this specific story though is recently she was interviewed by NBC where she was promoting her new book ‘Pilgrimage‘ and expressed that the iPhone is ‘the snapshot camera of today’. She then goes on to pull her iPhone out of her jacket pocket and explains ‘I’m still learning how to use mine, it’s great, it’s a pencil, it’s a pen, it’s a notebook. I can’t tell you many times I see people show me their children. It’s the wallet with the family pictures in it. It is so accessible and easy’.
You can watch the actual video of the interview below. But hey, what a great endorsement for a product by a ‘Living Legend’ as named by The Library of Congress for her work.
Copyright: Image above by Annie Liebovitz of John Lennon and Yoko Ono taken in 1980 for Rolling Stone magazine
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Joanne Carter, creator of the world’s most popular mobile photography and art website— TheAppWhisperer.com— TheAppWhisperer platform has been a pivotal cyberspace for mobile artists of all abilities to learn about, to explore, to celebrate and to share mobile artworks. Joanne’s compassion, inclusivity, and humility are hallmarks in all that she does, and is particularly evident in the platform she has built. In her words, “We all have the potential to remove ourselves from the centre of any circle and to expand a sphere of compassion outward; to include everyone interested in mobile art, ensuring every artist is within reach”, she has said. Promotion of mobile artists and the art form as a primary medium in today’s art world, has become her life’s focus. She has presented lectures bolstering mobile artists and their art from as far away as the Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea to closer to her home in the UK at Focus on Imaging. Her experience as a jurist for mobile art competitions includes: Portugal, Canada, US, S Korea, UK and Italy. And her travels pioneering the breadth of mobile art includes key events in: Frankfurt, Naples, Amalfi Coast, Paris, Brazil, London. Pioneering the world’s first mobile art online gallery - TheAppWhispererPrintSales.com has extended her reach even further, shipping from London, UK to clients in the US, Europe and The Far East to a global group of collectors looking for exclusive art to hang in their homes and offices. The online gallery specialises in prints for discerning collectors of unique, previously unseen signed limited edition art. Her journey towards becoming The App Whisperer, includes (but is not limited to) working for a paparazzi photo agency for several years and as a deputy editor for a photo print magazine. Her own freelance photographic journalistic work is also widely acclaimed. She has been published extensively both within the UK and the US in national and international titles. These include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Popular Photography & Imaging, dpreview, NikonPro, Which? and more recently with the BBC as a Contributor, Columnist at Vogue Italia and Contributing Editor at LensCulture. Her professional photography has also been widely exhibited throughout Europe, including Italy, Portugal and the UK. She is currently writing several books, all related to mobile art and is always open to requests for new commissions for either writing or photography projects or a combination of both. Please contact her at: [email protected]
