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Diane Arbus
Diane Arbus began her photography career in New York in the 1950s, initially working in fashion photography alongside her husband before shifting toward the distinctive documentary-style portrait work that would define her career, often focusing on subjects living on society's margins. Arbus became known for her direct, unflinching square-format portraits of circus performers, people with dwarfism, transgender individuals, and other subjects often excluded from mainstream photography of the era, approaching them with what she described as a mix of curiosity and empathy rather than exploitation. Arbus's 1972 posthumous retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, held a year after her death by suicide in 1971, drew record attendance and cemented her critical reputation, and the accompanying monograph became one of the best-selling photography books ever published. Diane Arbus's combination of her unflinching portraits of society's marginalized subjects and the extraordinary posthumous impact of her 1972 MoMA retrospective has made her one of the most influential and often-debated photographers in American history.
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Annie Leibovitz
Annie Leibovitz began her career as a staff photographer for Rolling Stone magazine in the early 1970s, eventually becoming the magazine's chief photographer, and her intimate, often provocative celebrity portraiture helped define the visual identity of the publication during that era. Leibovitz captured one of the most iconic photographs in music history in December 1980, an image of a nude John Lennon curled around a fully clothed Yoko Ono, taken just hours before Lennon was murdered, which later ran on the cover of Rolling Stone as a tribute. Leibovitz moved to Vanity Fair in 1983, where she continued producing elaborately staged, conceptual celebrity portraits for decades, and she has been widely credited with elevating celebrity portrait photography into a recognized fine-art form within mainstream magazine publishing. Annie Leibovitz's combination of her iconic final portrait of John Lennon and her decades-long role elevating celebrity photography into a genuine art form has made her one of the most influential portrait photographers in modern history.
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